But his strategy of avoiding battle with Hannibal and the Carthaginians helped turn the tide in the Second Punic War. |
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It was for them that a large work, written in Punic, of 28 books on agriculture was produced by a certain Mago. |
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The Punic admiral's retreat was ill-received at home, and Carthage responded with a larger force, prying out the Romans. |
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Old Punic legends seemed to linger in the palm-fringed gardens below the palace wall. |
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During the second Punic war between Rome and Carthage, Syracuse was held by the mercenary Hippocrates for the Carthaginians. |
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Between the Punic and Roman periods the first episode of economic specialization and a link with international commercial networks occurred. |
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An expeditionary force caused the Punic fleet to withdraw and that could well have been that. |
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Apuleius's claim in the Apology that Sicinius Pudens mostly spoke Punic thus makes perfect sense. |
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Devastating odors assaulted her, and the noise of humans screaming in Latin, Greek, German, Punic, Hebrew, Berber, Egyptian, Arabic. |
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Augustine never studied Hebrew, though he understood words of Punic spoken by the peasants and well knew that it was a cognate Semitic language. |
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In 149 the tribesmen again raided, but this time a Punic army followed them and destroyed their camps. |
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The Punic and Macedonian Wars of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. had kept Roman soldiers away from Rome for years at a time. |
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But on the flanks were the cavalry for both contestants, and the Punic cavalry defeated the Roman. |
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Spies from Rome And Carthage both trying to get the upper hand, clash between Punic trade mentality and Roman militancy. |
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It was still natural for the son to give thanks to a Punic god and to express himself solely in the Punic language. |
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A popular strategic approach for smaller, weaker states, Fabian Strategy has its roots in the Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome. |
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The Punic power fell, because there is in this materialism a mad indifference to real thought. |
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On the farms the peasants were Berber and Phoenician, speaking Punic. |
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When Tyre fell under the domination of Assyria, a Punic trading empire was established based on the former Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean. |
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On the island you can still see Phoenician settlements, Punic cities, Greek temples, Roman amphitheatres, Norman Arab castles and Aragonese churches. |
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The Septimii were of Punic origin, his mother's family of Italian descent. |
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After the Second Punic War, the Roman domination of Portugal began. |
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Foreign-policy experts rush to compare Libya to Bosnia, the Punic Wars, Iraq, Kosovo, Thermopylae, and so forth. |
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Marciana's name reveals that she was of Punic or Libyan origin but virtually nothing else is known of her. |
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For example, the Punic state began to field Berber Numidian cavalry under their commanders on a regular basis. |
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The Punic relationship with the majority Berbers continued throughout the life of Carthage. |
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Urbanization in Roman Africa expanded on Greek and Punic cities along the coast. |
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Evidence of the use of interchangeable parts can be traced back over two thousand years to Carthage in the First Punic War. |
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The island of Malta was granted this status as a reward for loyalty to Rome during the Second Punic War. |
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After the final Carthaginian naval defeat at the Aegates Islands, the Carthaginians surrendered and accepted defeat in the First Punic War. |
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Also to be exhibited are two Punic amphorae, a lamp, plate and ivory cabochons that were found atop the tomb and with the skeleton. |
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The second episode in Livy's writings takes place at the beginning of the Second Punic War. |
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Developed during the First Punic War it allowed them to apply their experience in land warfare on the seas. |
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Overall, there are better sources on specific issues, events, battles, and campaigns of the Second Punic War. |
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Before the Punic wars, the Romans accepted defeated peoples into an Italian federation and did not exact tribute. |
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Obamatus said that the Empire had become complacent since the Punic Wars and did not see the rise of economic competitors. |
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During the First Punic War, the island was conquered after harsh fighting by Marcus Atilius Regulus. |
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The Third Punic War finally saw Carthage fall to Rome, though the city was later reconstructed as New Carthage. |
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Archimedes was murdered in the Second Punic War, which saw Carthage again trying to take Sicily from the Roman Republic. |
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The Carthaginians, Rome's adversary in the Punic Wars, were expelled from their coastal colonies. |
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Among the reasons for the Second Punic War was the subsequent war reparations Carthage acquiesced to at the end of the First Punic War. |
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During the Second Punic War the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca utilized Gallic mercenaries in his invasion of Italy. |
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In the Punic Wars with Carthage, Romans developed the technique of grappling and boarding enemy ships with soldiers. |
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In Phoenician colonies around the western Mediterranean, beginning in the 9th century BC, Phoenician evolved into Punic. |
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Over time the original Phoenician exemplar developed distinctly, becoming the Punic religion at Carthage. |
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Modern scholars at first associated Baal Hammon with the Egyptian god Ammon of Thebes, both the Punic and the Egyptian being gods of the sun. |
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As Tanit was associated with Ba'al Hammon the principal god in Punic Carthage, so Astarte was with El in Phoenicia. |
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Following Jugurtha's usurpation of the throne of Numidia, a loyal ally of Rome since the Punic Wars, Rome felt compelled to intervene. |
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Meanwhile, the Roman Republic strengthened through victory over Carthage in the Punic Wars. |
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Polybius remained a counselor to Scipio when he defeated the Carthaginians in the Third Punic War. |
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The First Punic War required that Rome build large fleets, and it did so largely with the assistance of and financing from allies. |
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One theory holds it to be of Punic derivation, from the Phoenician language of colonizing Carthage. |
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The major part of the Punic Wars, fought between the Punic Carthaginians and the Romans, was fought on the Iberian Peninsula. |
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The Cimbrian War was the first time since the Second Punic War that Italia and Rome itself had been seriously threatened. |
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This period of unification was followed by one of conquest in the Mediterranean, beginning with the First Punic War against Carthage. |
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The Carthaginians developed an empire in the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily, the latter being the cause of First Punic War with the Romans. |
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Before the second Punic war, there was no historiography in Rome, but after, it was needed to commemorate this important occasion. |
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Punic Carthage was gone, but the other Punic cities in the western Mediterranean flourished under Roman rule. |
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He spoke the local Punic language fluently, but he was also educated in Latin and Greek, which he spoke with a slight accent. |
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He composed an epic poem about the first Punic War, in which he had fought. |
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The Berbers had become involuntary 'hosts' to the settlers from the east, and obliged to accept the Punic dominance of Carthage for many centuries. |
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Continuing distrust led to the renewal of hostilities in the Second Punic War when Hannibal Barca attacked an Iberian town which had diplomatic ties to Rome. |
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Polybius states that Rome could draw on 770,000 men at the beginning of the Second Punic War, of which 700,000 were infantry and 70,000 met the requirements for cavalry. |
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A small navy had operated at a fairly low level after about 300 BC, but it was massively upgraded about forty years later, during the First Punic War. |
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The extraordinary demands of the Punic Wars, in addition to a shortage of manpower, exposed the tactical weaknesses of the manipular legion, at least in the short term. |
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The war began with the audacious invasion of Hispania by Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who had led operations on Sicily in the First Punic War. |
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Barthold Georg Niebuhr was a founder of the examination of ancient Roman history and wrote The Roman History, tracing the period until the First Punic war. |
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Some of the most popular plays of the early Republic were comedies, especially those of Terence, a freed Roman slave captured during the First Punic War. |
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Roman jurists also show a concern for local languages such as Punic, Gaulish, and Aramaic in assuring the correct understanding and application of laws and oaths. |
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By around 750 BC, Sicily had three Phoenician and a dozen Greek colonies and, for the next 600 years, it was the site of the Sicilian Wars and the Punic Wars. |
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A large number of Gauls served in the armies of Carthage during the Punic Wars, and one of the leading rebel leaders of the Mercenary War, Autaritus, was of Gallic origin. |
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Such Berber ambivalence, the ability to entertain multiple mysteries concurrently, apparently characterized their religion during the Punic era also. |
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According to Edward Tufte, he was also a major source for Charles Joseph Minard's figurative map of Hannibal's overland journey into Italy during the Second Punic War. |
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Before the First Punic War there was no Roman navy to speak of. |
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The Berbers belonged to the lower social class when in Punic society. |
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Yet the whole notion of a Berber apprenticeship to the Punic civilization has been called an exaggeration sustained by a point of view fundamentally foreign to the Berbers. |
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There evolved a population of mixed ancestry, Berber and Punic. |
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The third and last Punic War led to the complete destruction of Carthage. |
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During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal probably crossed the Alps with an army numbering 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants. |
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A relevant source here is the inscribed slabs offering detailed description of the territory including roads and land redistribution after the Second Punic War. |
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Following the Punic Wars, Rome gained possession of all of the Phoenician North African possessions and renamed the city Oea and the region Tripolitania. |
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