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...Delenda est Carthago!" Senator Marcus Porcius Cato used to cry in urging Rome to destroy its old enemy. And so it was to be. By 146 B.C., the Romans had driven out Carthage's 500,000 inhabitants, razed the city, and sowed salt in the rubble so that nothing would ever grow there. As recently as 1930, the ancient metropolis was no more than a sleepy Tunisian village of 2,000. Now the place is being ruined in a new way-by developers...
...Marcus Porcius Cato never wore a derby hat. He never chain-smoked cigars or drank a highball. But Cato and Winston Churchill would have understood each other perfectly on one subject: Mediterranean policy. Like the Briton, the Roman understood that the key to the middle of the Middle Sea is the island of Sicily...
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...
Three 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...
...love with the Classics; for how could I otherwise lay any claim to respectability? Can he be a scholar who does not know that AEmilia Secunda, the younger daughter of Lucius AEmilius Paulus, married Marcus Porcius Cato, the son of Cato Major? or that Hermogenes Tigellius was a music-teacher, probably a Greek, and perhaps an adopted son of L. Tigellius? Assuredly not. These and similar facts constitute the very basis of an education...
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