Word: cato
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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...
Inasmuch as Carthage was not yet destroyed when Cato thundered against it in the senate, he would not have said, "est" which means...
Some sixty years have passed since I studied Latin in school, but I think I am not far wrong when I quote the phrase which Cato used as follows...
Correct Latin though scholarly Subscriber Andrae's version is, the version actually used by Cato, and accurately quoted by TIME, is also correct Latin. Let Subscriber Andrae consult his Allen & Greenough's, or any other standard Latin grammar, anent the gerundive construction...
...hundred years before Christ, Carthage was richer?because its fleet dominated the Mediterranean?than Rome. Rome made three wars against Carthage, the first two between 264-241 B.C. and 218-201 B.C. When Rome threatened a third war, Carthage asked for an embassy to consider future peace. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.), Roman Censor, was one of the deputies. Carthage's wealth and splendor made him fear for Rome's preëminence. He developed a mortal hate and fear of Carthage, much like the mania U. S. Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama...