Phoenician

How To Use Phoenician In A Sentence

• This city was settled by Phoenicians in the archaic period and it challenged the rising Roman Republic in three wars culminating in its own destruction in the second century B.C.E.
• The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly.
• Nevertheless the great confederation of the Canaanitic cities (perhaps to be identified with the Hyksos), backed the Phoenician cities, the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• A fortified citadel has stood on this spot since the Phoenicians ruled Malta, back in 1000 BC.
• The natives had probably smelted it themselves in their rude bloomeries, or obtained it from the Phoenicians in small quantities in exchange for skins and food, or tin. Industrial Biography
• It was 1100BC when the Phoenician traders first founded a settlement on a site of the town that now proudly boasts it is the oldest continually inhabited city in western Europe.
• Jesus welcomed outsiders: a Samaritan leper, a Syro-Phoenician woman, a Roman centurion, the good Samaritan and others.
• The word El appears in other northwest Semitic languages such as Phoenician and Aramaic and in Akkadian ilu as an ordinary word for god. Archive 2009-09-01
• Phoenicians; or secondly, that these islands were looked upon by them as a sacred spot for the burial of their dead, as the Hindoo looks upon the Ganges, and the Persian regards the shrines of Kerbela and Meshed. Southern Arabia
• Phoenicians about 1000 B.C. (10) This alludes to the story told by Plutarch ( "Caesar", 47) that, at Patavium, Caius Cornelius, a man reputed for skill in divination, and a friend of Livy the historian, was sitting to watch the birds that day. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars