Cato The Elder Carthage. As a history buff, i gave as an example of such tenacity cato the elder, the roman statesman who lived from 234 bce to 149 bce. Towards the end of his life he kept on insisting that carthage (rome's archenemy), after two previous conflicts, was still a danger to the republic and needed to be destroyed in a third punic war.
Cicero's dialogue cato the elder on old age also depicted cato's antipathy to carthage. To cato the individual life was a continual discipline, and public life was the discipline of the many. As a history buff, i gave as an example of such tenacity cato the elder, the roman statesman who lived from 234 bce to 149 bce.
Other times, “carthage must be destroyed” was put more compactly as carthago delenda est or delenda est carthago.
Towards the end of his life he kept on insisting that carthage (rome's archenemy), after two previous conflicts, was still a danger to the republic and needed to be destroyed in a third punic war. A talented commander, administrator and statesman. If, romans, every individual among us had made it a rule to maintain the prerogative and authority of a husband with respect to his own wife, we should have less trouble with the whole sex. Cicero's dialogue cato the elder on old age also depicted cato's antipathy to carthage.