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Re:Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? by JohnJamesRambo on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:58PM (#19720515)
Why did Cato hate Carthage so much?
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Re:Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? by c0vfefe on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:44PM (#19720933)
"The expression was a call to arms by the party advocating destruction of Rome's ancient rival Carthage, which was thought to be rebuilding its capacity for further warfare."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est

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Re:Ask HN: What Hacker News comments have you bookmarked? by xeromal on Monday April 22, 2019 @02:22PM (#19721322)
Hannibal came from Carthage and Hannibal was Rome's public enemy number 1. Really though, it's always been about the Mediterranean. Whoever owed that owned the "global" economy at the time. Carthage threatened that.
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