sentences:  Livy mentions that he was curule aedile in 200 BC, when he imported grain from Africa.According to an Oxford dictionary of Roman jurists, Paetus Catus's rapid rise from curule aedile to the consulship and censorship was not due to his father's death or his elder brother's successes, but his aptitude for the law.He was apparently nicknamed “catus” meaning “clever” or "the clever one" in recognition of his legal skills.