Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial T-shirt pictured with Bill Gates

Last Tuesday, the owner of Meta and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, 40 years old and received a congratulation that caught the attention of the whole world: a congratulation from Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft.

Gates wanted to wish his friend a happy birthday with a photo posted on his Instagram profile story. It shows the two of them smiling together in a room recreated to look as if it was Zuckerberg’s at Harvard when he was a student.

The Microsoft co-founder sits in a chair on the floor, wearing gray shorts, a black sweatshirt and high white socks. In its turn, Zuckerberg is sitting on a table, wearing jeans and a black T-shirt.

It’s the phrase that Facebook creator and Meta CEO printed on his T-shirt that is getting the most attention: Carthage Delenda Est.

This phrase, originally from Roman times, is translated from Latin as Carthage must be destroyed and is attributed to the Roman politician and writer Cato the Elder.. According to what has been said, he said this in every speech he made to make it clear that in the context of the Punic Wars, the city of Carthage needed to be brought to an end so that Rome and the Roman Empire would not be in danger.

Currently, Zuckerberg used this phrase when launching Google Plus in 2011., which promised to compete with Facebook.