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It is a Latin locution attributed to Cato, the Elder, who used it as a hose at the end of his speeches in the Roman Senate. It means "Carthage must be destroyed", alluding to the Carthaginian threat during the second century BC. C. , and to his insistence on ending it at the root . That is why it is used today as an obsessive example to achieve an end, seeking the support of peers. See ad portas .