Cato the Elder

( - ) was a Roman statesman.

• "Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse."
  • Translation: "Moreover, I advise that Carthago should be destroyed."
  • Notes: Cato was convinced that the security of Rome depended on the annihilation of Carthage and he urged his countrymen to the Third Punic War.

• "Hairy in front, opportunity is bald behind."
  • from Latin "Fronte capillata, post est Occasio calva."
  • Cato (attrib.), Disticha, bk. ii, No. 26, (c. 175 B.C.E.)