Cato the Elder

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Carthage must be destroyed.

Cato the Elder

Quoted in Plutarch's Lives, by Plutarch

Cato ended several of his speeches with this phrase after his visit to Carthage in 152 BC.

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Topic

War

Speaker

Cato the Elder

Author

Plutarch

Source

Plutarch's Lives

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Declaration

Language

Latin

Time

149 BC 140s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Cato the Elder. Speech within the Roman Senate prior to the Third Punic War. c. 149 BC, Rome, Italy.

A farm is like a man-however great the income, if there is extravagance but little is left.

Cato the Elder

De Agricultura

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Topic

Thrift Money management

Author

Cato the Elder

Source

De Agricultura

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

160 BC 160s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cato the Elder. De Agricultura [On Agriculture]. c. 160 BC, ch. 1, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Cato the Elder. "On Agriculture." Cato and Varro: On Agriculture, translated by W. D. Hooper and H. B. Ash. Harvard University Press, 1934, ch. 1, sect. 6.