How To Use Carthage In A Sentence
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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
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The following brief passage mentions the Sicilian Greek city of Segesta's alliance with Carthage against the Sicilian Greek city of Akragas (Girgenti) in 409 B.C., then briefly describes who bears most responsibility for the destruction of Sicily's Greek architecture.
Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)
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I also have hypothetical roots deduced by analysing word etymologies in my database, such as *Carθaza "Carthage" ascertained from the attested name Karθazie whose context lies in TLE 724, but I decided to leave this all out for now.
Etruscan Glossary (Draft 001 available for Free Download)
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Timaeus did not restrict his treatment to Sicily but dealt with the whole west including Carthage.
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The play opens on the deck of a ship that is sailing from the north African city of Carthage to the Italian city of Naples.
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Those efforts mostly failed and the GOP retained its majority, but the unions feel about Mr. Walker the way Cato the Elder felt about Carthage: Walker delenda est, Scott Walker must be destroyed.
Big Labor's Wisconsin Vendetta
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The western amphoras suggest that Corinth's ties with Italy resurge in the middle of the century, and it is tempting to suggest that the Vandal conquest of Carthage diverted routes northward.
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A new thermal depolymerization plant in Carthage, MO that converts turkey waste into oil products smells really BAD.
Archive 2006-01-29
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Today, revisiting the life of the town’s most celebrated citizen, the word Carthage sounds prophetic: to those who are familiar with her life, it seems apt that Virginia Cherrill should have emerged from a place connected by its name to the beautiful Queen Dido.
Chaplin’s Girl
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As the Roman Republic after the defeat of Carthage so, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, US supremacy is unchallenged.
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CARTHAGE -- Police have recovered multiple weapons after a man shot and killed seven residents and one staff member at a Carthage nursing home, according to the town's police chief.
Undefined
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For example, when you're excavating in Carthage, as I have done, you suddenly come across this black tide mark – and that is the destruction layer of the city: 146BC.
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for
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Carthage holds an almost mythical place in the western imagination.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides her habitual devotees in the artistic or literary world, there were diplomatists and deputies commixed with many fair chiefs of la jeunesse doree; amongst the latter the brilliant Enguerrand de Vandemar, who, deeming the acquaintance of every celebrity essential to his own celebrity in either Carthage, the beau monde, or the demi-monde, had, two Thursdays before, made Louvier attend her soiree and present him.
The Parisians — Complete
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Pride of Carthage is not an attempt to turn/revise
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
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Then Rome damned Carthage and condemned it to death.
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These scholars had the unenviable task of explaining why their patrons eventually sieged, overran, and sacked Carthage in a door-to-door killing spree that left only fifty thousand survivors out of an estimated population of seven hundred thousand.
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
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She went online to apply for colleges and was accepted on scholarship to Carthage College in Wisconsin, where she started this month in premed.
Anya Kamenetz: E-Mentoring: Someone (Virtually) by Your Side
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Lousy command dice prevented a counterstroke & Carthage failed army morale.
Camp Cromwell 23/06/08
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We can infer from the archaeological evidence that there was slavery in Carthage.
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This was a slow process, and popes continued to appoint bishops to sees like Carthage and Tripoli until the middle of the twelfth century, but traces of organised, indigenous Christian communities become rare after that time.
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At Carthage, the pirate kingdom of the Vandals outlived imperial Rome by several decades.
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It would not have been difficult for him to find Greek copies of Platonic dialogues at either Carthage or Rome, where he taught for a time.
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The book's history, then, spans the period from about the eighth century B.C. to about the third century B.C., when Rome commenced to expel Carthage permanently from Sicily, in the Punic Wars, and displace the Greek presence there.
Greek Cities in Italy and Sicily by David Randall-MacIver (1931)
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A cultivated esthete, Manookian was fascinated by the French novelist Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo, a historical novel set in ancient Carthage.
John Seed: The Other Armenian: Arman Manookian's Short Life, and His Art
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Something of a throwback to another era himself, he has directed archaeological digs in Carthage and Rome, lectured at Cambridge University and now teaches classics at the University of Sydney.
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for
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Among the leaders of these Christians was Bishop Donatus Magnus, the Bishop of Carthage.
Bring Back Donatism! | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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The capture by assault was either by force or by open violence, or by force mixed with fraud: the open violence was either by assault without piercing the walls (which they called attacking the city in crown fashion) because they surrounded the City with the entire army, as when Scipio took New Carthage in Spain; or if this assault was not enough they addressed themselves to breeching the walls with rams or with other machines of war of theirs; or they made a mine and by means of it entered the City, by which method they took the City from the Veienti: or in order to be at the same level with those who defended the walls, they made towers of wood: or they made embankments of earth placed against the outside of the walls in order to come to a height above them.
Discourses
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At Leggett & Platt's sprawling bedspring factory in Carthage—which processes 800,000 pounds of steel wire a day—the more immediate problem is a price squeeze.
Too Early to Hire, Cautious CEO Says
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The repeated recitation of upstate New York towns, with their echoes of classical greatness - Thrace, Troy, Rome, Ithaca, Carthage - are ironic echoes of other lost civilizations.
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In 205, Scipio ran for consul on the platform that he could defeat Carthage and bring the long war to a close.
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I wonder which oil company Al Gore will blame for the fact that he 'received more than $500,000 in royalties from the owners of zinc mines who held mineral leases on his farm near Carthage, Tennessee' and that 'Before the mines closed in 2003, they emitted thousands of pounds of toxic substances and several times, the water discharged from the mines into nearby rivers had levels of toxins above what was legal'?
Some Stuff
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Though Romans destroyed Carthage in the Punic Wars, Roman legend traced the very origin of Rome to the Carthanginian mother-city, as shown by the story of Aeneas, who came directly across the Mediterranean from there, to found Rome.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Albert Walton, a Korean War veteran in Carthage and a friend of
Heroes or Villains?
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CARTHAGE -- Robert K. Stewart, the accused slayer of eight people in a Carthage nursing home Sunday, is being held at the hospital of Central Prison, where court-appointed attorneys got a judge's order to see him today.
NewsObserver.com - Home
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Saguntum lay about 140 miles north of Carthagena, and the army had to cross the range of mountains now known as the Sierra Morena, which run across the peninsula from Cape St. Vincent on the west to Cape St. Martin on the east.
The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal
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Sufetula was built one hundred and fifty miles to the south of Carthage: a gentle declivity is watered by a running stream, and shaded by a grove of juniper-trees; and, in the ruins of a triumpha arch, a portico, and three temples of the Corinthian order, curiosity may yet admire the magnificence of the Romans.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In May, a processing plant in Carthage Missouri began turning turkey guts, feathers, blood and carcasses into an oil alternative.
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With Cato's slogan ringing in their ears, with their jealousy of Carthage's economic success, the Roman senate decreed that the terms of the treaty had been violated and it duly declared war.
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Jeff Hadlock , a quality-systems manager at the company's Carthage bedding plant, helps integrate technology that streamlines factory operations, such as automated equipment that welds metal frames onto sets of bedsprings.
Too Early to Hire, Cautious CEO Says
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Carthage were three bishops together at dinner, and one of them spake evil by detraction of S. Ambrose, and there was a man that told what was befallen for such language to this aforesaid priest, but he mocked and japed so much that he felt a stroke mortal; that that same day he died and was buried.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3
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But after the loss of Sicily and Sardinia he wanted to add Spain's mineral wealth and manpower to Carthage's resources, thus enabling it to fight a new war effectively when war came.
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Claire is an accomplished pianist while Carthage plays clarinet, piano, flute and guitar.
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With Carthage defeated, the Romans became the most powerful Mediterranean state.
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Pride of Carthage is my first offering of the style of novel I want to build my career on.
David Durham explains his interest in Hannibal and refutes the historical concept of him as a brutish barbarian.
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Son of a duumvir, he attended university in Carthage, Athens, and Rome and studied, amongst other subjects, Platonic philosophy and Latin oratory.
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Whether Carthage or London, the poem's cities are seen as horrible, life-denying.
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Then they commenced to build a city which they called Carthage, and even now they were engaged in raising its walls.
Story of Aeneas
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Volunteers from this military body now marched to Carthage and stormed the jail.
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Humanity might be “sitting on a ticking time bomb,” but Gore’s home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine.
Think Progress » Drudge Falsely Smears Gore
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But having trashed the place, the Romans eventually fancied it for themselves; a new city was built over the ruins of Carthage, and Tunisia became the granary of the Roman Empire.
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Following Requiem Mass on Friday John was laid to rest in St. Carthage's cemetery in the presence of another vast and immensely representative concourse.
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The chlamys was a foreign warrior’s garment, hardly the typical uniform of a Roman woman, though tellingly it was the dress of Virgil’s tragic heroine of the Aeneid, Queen Dido of Carthage, who like Agrippina had taken on traditionally male responsibilities, attempting to found a new kingdom for her people.62
Caesars’ Wives
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Empires from Rome to Carthage fought over this most significant of nautical prizes.
