Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

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Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed. | Cato was convinced that the security of Rome depended on the annihilation of Carthage and he urged his countrymen to the Third Punic War. Towards the end of his life he ended all of his speeches in the Roman senate with these words.

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