  We study Legendrian knots in a cabled knot type. Specifically, given a
topological knot type K, we analyze the Legendrian knots in knot types obtained
from K by cabling, in terms of Legendrian knots in the knot type K. As a
corollary of this analysis, we show that the (2,3)-cable of the (2,3)-torus
knot is not transversely simple and moreover classify the transverse knots in
this knot type. This is the first classification of transverse knots in a
non-transversely-simple knot type. We also classify Legendrian knots in this
knot type and exhibit the first example of a Legendrian knot that does not
destabilize, yet its Thurston-Bennequin invariant is not maximal among
Legendrian representatives in its knot type.
