Be not ashamed to be helped. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 7.
Image: The Catapult by Edward Poynter, 1868, now in the collections of the Laing Art Gallery, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
In 1868 Poynter produced another of his most celebrated Roman spectaculars, The Catapult. This shows Roman soldiers manning a siege engine for an attack on the walls of Carthage, during the siege which ended in the destruction of Carthage in 146 BCE. The famous command of Cato the Elder, "Delenda est Carthago" (quoted in Pultarch's "Life of Cato") is carved in the wood of the huge catapult.
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