德西厄斯·穆斯拯救了罗马（3）

    “delenda est carthago!”

    “delenda est carthago!”

    a noble old roman, eighty-four years of age, had just finished a stirring speech in the forum, or great market place of rome, and these  o!” (carthage must be destroyed!)

    his e must be destroyed?” asked one citizen of another.

    “cato the censor says so,” e cannot long exist under the same sun. one must soon submit to the other. if rome does not destroy carthage, then carthage o!’ ”

    cato  reat city on the other side of the mediterranean. cato,  man of eighteen, had served as a soldier in one of these e, e. he e s ed s and the strength of the city  of e reat to be estimated.

    and so er. carthage must be destroyed.

    a about him and a that he reat men—that he had held some of the highest offices in the gift of the city. a narronified that its .

    in the street cato met many of his friends; and no matter on ht talk, his last  o!”

    he had been a roman censor, and for a time had been the most poht of the morals of the city, and had tried hard to preserve the simple, sturdy habits of his forefathers. there  that he hated more than luxury and self-indulgence; and no men dressed in fashionable style idling in the streets, his anger ainst them.“delenda est carthago!” he cried,  them for their folly. and  in fine houses and enjoying their o!”

    he did not stay long in the city, but hastened to return to his farm on the sabine, reeting to his fly o!”

    had you seen him on his farm you ht of him as the greatest of romans. having laid aside his toga, he appeared dressed in the rude fashion of a hard- farmer. ather grapes in his vineyard, and to pick olives from his olive trees. he met hbors and talked about the prospects of the  , “delenda est carthago!”

    his manner of life on the farm  randfather. cato rain, he helped the reapers, he gathered his hay, he fed his flocks and herds.“to do these necessary things,” said he, “is to be a roman of the old-fashioned sort.”

    his hters round the barley and made the bread for the household; they attended to the milk and pressed the cheeses; they bottled the rapes; they spun and  for the fly. life on the sabine farm ave to all the household good health and long and happy lives.

    the great roman’s last days h if it had not been for the bitter hatred e.  his fellos ion or farming, he did not fail to add a e. and th, e, he lay doe o!”</p>

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