Nei Cato aifunga kuti Carthage yaifanira kuparadzwa?
Context:Kunyange zvazvo Roma yakabudirira muhondo mbiri dzokutanga dzePunic, sezvo yakakwikwidzana kuti ive nesimba neguta rePunic rekufamba negungwa reCarthage kuNorth Africa (zvino Tunisia), yakatambura kunyadziswa kwakawanda uye kudzoserwa kwakakuvadza mukufamba kwezvibvumirano izvi, kunyanya pa Hondo yeCannae muna 216 BC. Roma zvisinei yakakwanisa kukunda Hondo yeChipiri yePunic nekuda kwaScipio Africanus muna 201 BC. Pashure pokukundwa kwaro, Carthage yakarega kuva tyisidziro kuRoma uye yakaderedzwa kusvika kunharaunda duku iyo yakaenzana neicho zvino chiri kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kweTunisia.  Zvisinei, Cato the Censor akashanyira Carthage muna 152 BC senhengo yemumiriri weSenatorial, iyo yakatumirwa kunotonga gakava pakati peguta rePunic naMassinnissa, mambo weNumidia. Cato, murwi weHondo yeChipiri yePunic, akashamiswa nepfuma yeCarthage, yaaifunga kuti yaiva nengozi kuRoma. Akabva aramba achidaidzira kuti riparadzwe uye akagumisa hurukuro dzake dzose nemashoko iwayo, kunyange apo gakava racho rakanga riri panhau yakasiyana zvachose. Zvisinei, Dare reSeneti rakaramba kumutevera, zvikurukuru Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, mukuwasha waScipio Africanus uye seneta aiva nesimba zvikuru. Corculum akaramba hondo kuti achengetedze kubatana kweRoma uye akataura kuti kutya muvengi akafanana kwaikosha kuti vanhu varambe vakadzikama. Kufanana naCato, akagumisa hurukuro dzake dzose nemutsara mumwe chetewo wokuti, "Carthage inofanira kuponeswa" (Carthago servanda est).
Cato akanzwa kuti Carthage yakanga yadzoka nokukurumidza zvikuru kubva mukukundwa kwayo muhondo mbiri dzokutanga dzePunic, uye ingadai yakayeuka kukundwa kunoparadza paCannae. Akafunga kuti kuparadza Carthage zvachose ndiko kwaizoita kuti isaramba ichityisidzira Roma.