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Ca⋅to

[key-toh]
–noun
1. Marcus Por⋅ci⋅us [pawr-shee-uhs, -shuhs] , (“the Elder” or “the Censor”), 234–149 b.c., Roman statesman, soldier, and writer.
2. his great-grandson, Marcus Porcius (“the Younger”), 95–46 b.c., Roman statesman, soldier, and Stoic philosopher.
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Cato [(kay-toh)]

A politician of ancient Rome, known for his insistence that Carthage was Rome's permanent enemy. He had a custom of ending all his speeches in the Roman senate with the words “Carthage must be destroyed.”

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