Re: Extinguishing the Elves (was: Ogoneking the Consonants)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2000, 19:23 |
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At 19:33 27.5.2000 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>>It's a parody of Cato the Censor's perpetual close to his speeches
>>on any subject whatever: "That is my opinion, and further it is my
>>opinion that Carthage must be destroyed: she is a menace to Rome."
>>Eventually the Romans launched the Third (and last) Punic war out
>>of sheer boredom.
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>A war about nothing.
Hardly. Rome had challenged Carthage for supremacy in the western med,
almost lost the 2d Punic War, but eventually managed to destroy the
Carthaginians' military power. Cato thought that as long as the city and
the people were in place they could rebuild that power.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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