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And in that war the renown of your ancestor Marcus Cato was very
conspicuous; but he, if he was, as I make no doubt that he was, a man of the same character as
I see that you are, would never have gone to that war, if he had thought that it was only
going to be a war against women. Nor would the senate have prevailed on Publius Africanus to
go as lieutenant to his brother, when he himself; a little while before, having forced
Hannibal out of Italy, having driven him out of Africa, and having crushed the power of
Carthage, had delivered the republic from the greatest dangers, if that war had not been
considered an important and formidable war.
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