Roman catapult at the siege of Carthage with Cato's phrase, by Edward Poynter/Image: public domain at Wikimedia Commons Throughout the year 147 B.C., Roman senators became accustomed to attending a ...

Cato the Elder famously said at the end of every speech, "Carthago delenda est" (Carthage must be destroyed). Carthage was a thriving Phoenician city-state in today's Tunisia and was Rome's greatest ...

Carthago delenda est — mean anything to you? It certainly meant a lot to people hanging around the Roman Senate some 2,200 years ago — and to Mark Zuckerberg. In a series of Instagram photos showing ...

However, it was Zuckerberg’s outfit that caught the attention of many. In particular, his T-shirt, which bore the Latin phrase “Carthago delenda est” (Carthage must be destroyed), raised eyebrows. The ...

As the Punic Wars dragged on, Cato the Elder reportedly concluded every speech to the Roman Senate by proclaiming “Carthago delenda est” – “Carthage must be destroyed.” Ample evidence suggests that ...

I WATCHED with interest those terrible fires in the Cape last month and the fact that some of the helicopters were scooping up sea water to dump on the fires set me thinking. Carthago delenda est ...