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Quotation from Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch
“Also, Carthage, methinks, ought utterly to be destroyed”
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Marcus Cato, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864)
Cato closed every speech in the Senate with this sentence after his embassy to Carthage.
Citation: "Also, Carthage, methinks, ought utterly to be destroyed" — Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Marcus Cato, trans. John Dryden et al., rev. A. H. Clough (1864). (id plutarch-lives-q5)
