Word: carthago
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Scipio Africanus (Italian) is as magnificent a bit of Fascismo as has come out of Italy since Marcus Cato rose to tell the Roman Senate: "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be liquidated). It is also as spectacular a show as the movies have seen since the Italian Quo Vadis? first made the U. S. spectacle-conscious...
...Delcnda est Carthago...
Referring to your report about the Eucharistic Congress recently held at Carthage and the very interesting resume of the history of that ancient city (TIME, p. 26, May 19), permit me to correct the quotation ascribed to the Roman senator Marcus Porcius Cato. The phrase as given "Delenda est Carthago" might have been used by Scipio Africanus when reporting the destruction of Carthage (however, he would not have used the "th" in the Latin name of that city...
...preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama now has against the Roman Catholic Church. Senator Cato drove his point home by concluding all his speeches with the phrase: Delenda est Carthago! ("Carthage must be destroyed!") The year Cato died, Rome started her third Punic War (149-146 B.C.) and Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the Younger literally did destroy Carthage. He killed all the inhabitants, razed every building, sprinkled salt on the ground to prevent husbandry, dedicated the place to the gods...