An idea from Parallel Lives

Cato the Elder once shook African figs out of his toga in front of the senate: this rich land was only 3 days’ sail away. From then on, whatever the debate, he ended his opinion the same way: “Also, Carthage, methinks, ought utterly to be destroyed.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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