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Carthage
[ kahr-thij ]
noun
- an ancient city-state in N Africa, near modern Tunis: founded by the Phoenicians in the middle of the 9th century b.c.; destroyed in 146 b.c. in the last of the Punic Wars.
- a town in central Missouri.
Carthage
/ 藞办蓱藧胃瑟诲萧 /
noun
- an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 ad See also Punic Wars
Carthage
- An ancient city in north Africa , established by traders from Phoenicia . Carthage was a commercial and political rival of Rome for much of the third and second centuries b.c. The Carthaginian general Hannibal attempted to capture Rome by moving an army from Spain through the Alps , but he was prevented and finally defeated in his own country. At the end of the Punic Wars , the Romans destroyed Carthage, as the senator Cato had long urged. The character Dido , lover of Aeneas in the Aeneid , was a queen of Carthage.
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 颁补谤路迟丑补路驳颈苍路颈路补苍 [kahr-th, uh, -, jin, -ee-, uh, n], adjective noun
- 辫蝉别耻顎卍辞-颁补谤顎卼丑补路驳颈苍顎僫路补苍 adjective noun
Example Sentences
Hollywood, really, and it took me a while because in "The Aeneid" 鈥 and Danny Ryan is Aeneas 鈥 Aeneas goes into a cave shipwrecked in Carthage and there are murals of the Trojan War.
Danny鈥檚 journey to Hollywood, Winslow explained, echoes Aeneas鈥 journey to Carthage.
That鈥檚 in contrast to the Cairo International Film Festival and Tunisia鈥檚 Carthage Film Festival, both of which were canceled due to the war.
As the home of ancient Carthage and its Punic culture, and as a major Roman colony that helped provide the empire with food, Tunisia is awash with classical-era sites and archaeological remains.
Speaking in the Roman Senate more than 2,100 years ago, Cato the Elder famously ended his speeches with the well-worn line 鈥淐arthage must be destroyed.鈥
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