... put on record against it an unavailing remonstrance. The scheme is more than heathen. When old Cato repeated at the end of every speech his perpetual formula, even in a Roman Senate, there was a Scipio always ready to retort."And my opinion is that Carthage should stand." "We hold with Scipio, not with Cato. But even the purpose of the cruel old Roman was nothing to this. A hostile or reb...