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Cato was born of plebeian stock and fought as a military tribune in the Second Punic War. His oratorical and legal skills and his rigid morality attracted the notice of the patrician Lucius Valerius Flaccus, who helped him begin a political career at Rome.
After 23 years of fighting, Rome emerged the victor and imposed heavy conditions upon Carthage as the price for peace. The conflict was called the Punic War because Rome's name for Carthaginians was Punici (older Phoenici, due to their Phoenician ancestry). In the middle of the 3rd century BC, the power of Rome was growing.