Im sorry? For instance Plutarch and Livy described one of the campaigns he lead in Spain. Every successful military commander in ancient Rome was a war crimin

Im sorry? For instance Plutarch and Livy described one of the campaigns he lead in Spain. Every successful military commander in ancient Rome was a war criminal by modern standards. That not a particularly interesting statement considering how obvious it is but it’s not like anyone could disagree with it. To be fair Cato might have been excessively cruel even by Roman standards since because he did coin this phrase https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellum_se_ipsum_alet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellum_se_ipsum_alet But let’s not go that far…