For those who don’t know the backstory, around 153 BCE a Senator named Publius Cornelius Scipi
For those who don’t know the backstory, around 153 BCE a Senator named Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum got into it with one Marcus Porcius Cato (known also as Cato the Elder and Cato the Censor) over Carthage, a former Phoenician colony in Tunisia and one of the most affluent cities in the classical world.Cato coveted the wealth of Carthage, and legend says that he ended every speech on any subject with “Carthago delenda est!” (Carthage must be destroyed!)Corculum opposed this policy and, at the conclusion of of his rebuttals to Cato, he intoned - I imagine wearily - Carthago servanda est! (Carthage must be saved!)Cato’s opinion eventually prevailed, and the great mercantile city of Carthage was demolished after a siege lasting two years. Historians estimate 62,000 Carthaginians died and 50,000 were enslaved. -- source link
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