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It is said that whatever was the subject on which he was asked for his opinion in the senate, he always ended his speech with 'ceterum censeo delendam esse Carthaginem' P. Scipio Nasica, the son-in-law of Africanus, and the representative of his policy, always shouted out the opposite opinion, thinking that the fear of Carthage had a salutary effect on the Roman populace at large.
Agyptus super ceteram antiquitatis gloriam, viginti millia urbium sibi Amase regnante habitata quondam pratulit; postea quoque sub Romano imperio multis, etiamsi ignobilibus, frequens. Clarissima omnium fuit Alexandria, caput Agypti totiusque Africa, post deletam Carthaginem prima; ab Alexandro Magno condita; postea in tantam aucta multitudinem atque frequentiam, uti uni tantum Roma cederet.
He takes comparisons from it: "You who have been to Carthage " he often says to his listeners. For the boy from little Thagaste to go to Carthage, was about the same as for our youths from the provinces to go to Paris. Veni Carthaginem in these simple words there is a touch of naive emphasis which reveals the bewilderment of the Numidian student just landed in the great city.