Carthaginian
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- noun
- /ˌkɑrθəˈdʒɪniən/
- Act five begins with the battle between the Carthaginians and Jarbas and his Numidians.
- Carthaginians to victory
- battle between the Carthaginians
- war between the Carthaginians
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Watch on YouTubeAnd we'll fight against the Samnites or the, you know, the Volsky or God forbid, the Carthaginians, because they were pretty tough.
- And we'll fight against the Samnites or the, you know, the Volsky or God forbid, the Carthaginians, because they were pretty tough.
Examples
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After his victory over the Carthaginians at Himera, Gelon had the whole of Sicily under his control.
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The Carthaginians defending the city... ...were attacked by three Roman legions.
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By the time it ended, the Carthaginians were reduced to eating sand and drinking their own urine.
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The Romans coming down, pursuing the Carthaginians back to their main lines.
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Now the true skill of the Carthaginians shown through.
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At that signal, Gelon advanced from Himera to meet the Carthaginians in pitched battle.
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Jupiter arrives and informs everyone that Dido is, in fact, now a goddess, and the Carthaginians rejoice once more.
Academic text (2000) -
The single Battle of Himera was so decisive that the Carthaginians sent ambassadors to Sicily to ask for peace, in fear that Gelon would descend on Africa.
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Beginning in the middle of the eighth century B.C., when the Greeks founded their first colonies on the island and the Carthaginians arrived from North Africa to establish their presence there, Sicily was a prize that both Greeks and Carthaginians coveted.
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The Carthaginian general devised a clever strategy to outsmart his Roman opponents.
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Etymology
The word Carthaginian comes from the city name Carthage, which comes from an old Phoenician phrase qart 'city' and hadash 'new'. So a Carthaginian is a person from that ancient 'new city'.