Possible Clues:

• Censor of 51-Down
• 'Lydia' poet
• Turn-coat old statesman
• 'Praecepta' author
• The beast that gets nothing from a stern old Roman
• 'Carthage must be destroyed!' proclaimer
• Seems there was nothing feline about that severe old Roman
• Whip given to old statesman
• Roman writer
• "The Elder" of history