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- 01Scipio quoted Iliad lines about Troy's fall while watching Carthage burn, fearing Rome would one day share the fate.
- 02The destruction was so total that the exact site of Carthage's harbor was lost for nearly 2,000 years.
- 03Cato the Elder ended every Senate speech with 'Carthago delenda est' for years before the vote was finally taken.