Carthage, once a mighty city, on the north central coast of Africa,
III, 99, 100;
the most formidable commercial and military rival of Rome;
conquered by Rome in the First Punic War (264-241), I, 39;
Second Punic War (219-202), I, 40; III, 47;
destroyed in the Third (149-146), I, 35; II, 76.
Carthaginians, the people of Carthage, I, 39, 108; III, 99, 110, 113;
treacherous, III, 102;
cruel, III, 100, 102;
treaty-breaking, I, 38.
Cassander, son of Antipater, disinherited by his father, gained the
throne of Macedonia (306) by wars and murders (319-301), II, 48.
Cato, Marcus Porcius, the Censor (or Major, the Elder, I, 37) (234-149),
author, I, 104; III, 1;
orator, III, 104;
soldier, served in Second Punic War (217-202);
statesman, responsible for the destruction of Carthage (146), I, 79;
"the Wise," III, 16;
consul (195);
censor (184);
stalwart champion of the simple life and stern morals, II, 89;
bitterly opposed luxury and Greek culture; yielded in old age.
Cato, Marcus Porcius, son of the preceding;
jurist;
served under Paulus in Macedon (168), I, 37;
[under Marcus Popilius Laenas in Liguria (172), I, 36].
Cato, Marcus Porcius, grandson of the Censor and father of Cato
Uticensis, III, 66.
Cato;
Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95-46), son of the preceding and
great-grandson of the Censor;
a Stoic philosopher;
orator;
soldier, I, 112;
defeated at Thapsus (46);
judge, III, 66;
stern and unyielding as his great-grandfather, I, 112; III, 88;
his suicide, I, 112;
close friend of Cicero (II, 2); III, 88.
Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, half-brother of Julius Caesar Strabo, I, 133;
orator;
scholar, I, 133;
author;
soldier;
consul with Marius (102) in the war against the Cimbri (101);
gentleman, I, 109;
committed suicide to escape the proscriptions of Marius (87).
Catulus, Quintus Lutatius, son of the preceding, defeated Lepidus at the
Milvian bridge;
statesman, I, 76;
scholar, I, 133.
Caudium, a little town in the mountains of Samnium;
near it are the Caudine Forks, the scene of the disastrous battle
(321); III, 109; (II, 79).
Celtiberians, a powerful people of central Spain, opposed Rome in Second
Punic War, were reduced in the Numantian War (134), submitted on
the death of Sertorius (72), I, 38.
Centumalus, Tiberius Claudius;
unknown, III, 66.
Chicanery, I, 33.
Chremes, a character in Terence's _Heauton Timorumenus_, I, 30.
Chrysippus, of Soli (250-207), studied Stoic philosophy at Athens under
Cleanthes, whom he succeeded;
voluminous writer. "Had there been no Chrysippus, there had been no
Stoa," III, 42.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, the orator's father, III, 77;
died (64).
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