the Just in Parallel Lives
This man told Polybius to stop imitating Odysseus and said a delegation to Asia Minor lacked feet, head, and heart. This man's son retrieved a lost sword at the Battle of Pydna and didn't like his use of prostitutes. He personally led troops through a goat path to rout Antiochous III at the Second Battle of Thermopylae. Plutarch paired this figure with Aristides the Just in Parallel Lives and noted that he was not poor, but (*) frugal, since he sold off old slaves and left a large estate to descendants such as one who committed suicide at Utica. This opponent of the Oppian Laws' repeal opposed Scipio Nasica's view that Rome needed an external enemy and dropped a big fig to show that a resurgent enemy must be crushed. For 10 points, name this morally strict Roman censor who said, "Carthage must be destroyed!"
This man told Polybius to stop imitating Odysseus and said a delegation to Asia Minor lacked feet, head, and heart.
Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder [or Elder Cato, Major Cato, or Cato Maior; or Cato the Wise and Cato Sapiens; or Cato the Ancient and Cato Priscus; or Cato the Censor and Cato Censorius until the end; prompt on Cato; do not accept or prompt on "Cato the Younger"]