Lucius Porcius Cato was a Roman general and politician who became consul in 89 BC alongside Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo.

He died at the Battle of Fucine Lake, possibly at the hands of Gaius Marius the Younger.

[1] In 90 BC, during the Social War, he was given a propraetoral command and defeated an Etruscan army which had joined the revolt.

[2][3] He was elected consul in 89 BC, alongside Pompey Strabo, and took over the southern command from Lucius Caesar.

[7][3] The circumstances surrounding his death constitute a subplot in the second novel of the Australian novelist Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series, The Grass Crown.