Punic Wars - Cato the Elder (Four Knights Game: Italian Variation)

Cato the Elder (Latin: Cato Major; 234 BC – 149 BC), born Marcus Porcius Cato, was a Roman senator and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write history in Latin. In his last years, he was known for strenuously urging his countrymen to the Third Punic War and the destruction of Carthage. In 157 BC, he was one of the deputies sent to Carthage to arbitrate between the Carthaginians and Massinissa, king of Numidia. The mission was unsuccessful and the commissioners returned home, but Cato was so struck by Carthage's growing prosperity that he was convinced that the security of Rome depended on its annihilation. From that time, he began concluding his speeches—on any topic whatsoever—with the cry "Moreover, I advise that Carthage must be destroyed" (Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam).