Carthaginian

How To Use Carthaginian In A Sentence

• Recently—too recently for the information to be included in "Carthage Must Be Destroyed"—the site of the Battle of Baecula in 208 B.C., where Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian army under Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal, was discovered in Spain. An Empire of the Mediterranean
• In fact, the word Bible comes from the word Byblos, another Carthaginian port from which the majority of Egyptian papyrus was exported. Blowback
• Indeed the Carthaginian captives could distinguish the velaria spread over the courtyards of their houses, beyond the gulf on the slopes of Byrsa. Salammbo
• The Romans learned the practice from the Carthaginians and quickly became very efficient and skillful at it.
• In the north, the Gauls are threatening, the Greeks are grumbling to the east, and Rome's biggest threat, the Carthaginians, are growing tetchy to the south.
• Carthaginian peace
• Alexander the Great and his generals introduced the practice to the Phoenicians, Egyptians and Carthaginians.
• One Carthaginian sea captain sank his ship rather than let his charts fall into Roman hands.
• The curve of the Carthaginians, however, flattened by degrees, became quite straight, and then bent inwards; upon this, the two sections of the velites drew together in parallel lines, like the legs of a compass that is being closed. Salammbo
• Anyone who has learned some Roman history knows that the only person that ancient Rome admits to having feared is the Carthaginian general Hannibal. 2010 May 20 « The BookBanter Blog