| − | Marcus Porcius Cato ("Cato the Elder") lived from 234 to 149 B.C., and was a famous Roman statesman during the Punic Wars. He was serving Rome as consul in 195 B.C., when he brutally suppressed a revolt in Carthaginian Spain. Cato served Rome as censor in 184 and acted harshly against private extravagance. | + | Marcus Porcius Cato ("Cato the Elder") lived from 234 to 149 B.C., and was a famous Roman statesman during the Punic Wars. He was serving Rome as consul in 195 B.C., when he suppressed a revolt in Carthaginian Spain. Cato served Rome as censor in 184 and acted against private extravagance. |
| − | Cato is famous for urging destruction of Carthage, as the Roman army then did in the Third Punic War. | + | Cato is famous for urging destruction of Carthage, as the Roman army did in the Third Punic War. |