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A Roman senator ended every speech demanding Carthage be destroyed, and in 146 BC it was.
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Cato the Elder reputedly closed his remarks, whatever the topic, with 'Carthago delenda est.' After the Third Punic War, Rome razed its old rival and sold the survivors into slavery.
Source: Plutarch, 'Life of Cato the Elder,' 27; Appian, 'Punica.'
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