(a.) Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Carthage.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the Carthaginian army ascended from the Rhône valley in Gaul, they were harassed and attacked by mountain tribes who, knowing the territory, set ambushes, dropped boulders and generally wrought havoc.
(2) Having battled their deadly rivals the Romans in Spain, in 218BC the Carthaginian army made a move that no one expected.
(3) The Roman historian Diodorus and other ancient historians gave graphic accounts of Carthaginian child sacrifice: "There was in their city a bronze image of Cronus, extending its hands, palms up and sloping towards the ground, so that each of the children when placed thereon rolled down and fell into a sort of gaping pit filled with fire."
(4) Constable's Salisbury Cathedral is a sublime image of Britishness, of nationhood, just as Turner's two canvases of the rise and fall of the Carthaginian empire comment more sceptically on the fate of opulence.
(5) JMW Turner made high drama of it in 1812, a louring snowstorm sending the Carthaginians into wild disarray.
(6) During the descent the Carthaginians were mostly unmolested, but now the mountains themselves threatened mortal danger.
(7) Just as ancient Greek and Roman propagandists insisted, the Carthaginians did kill their own infant children, burying them with sacrificed animals and ritual inscriptions in special cemeteries to give thanks for favours from the gods, according to a new study.
(8) Since early history, Ibiza itself has attracted hedonists and freedom-seekers, from the Carthaginians in 654BC, to the hippies of the 1960s, to the clubbers of more recent times.
(9) Argument has raged on the subject since cemeteries known as tophets – after the biblical account of a place of sacrifice – were excavated in the early 20th century on the outskirts of Carthage in modern Tunisia, and then at other Carthaginian sites in Sicily and Sardinia.
Punic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.
(a.) Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quinn and her colleagues, a group of Punic archaeologists and historians from Italy and the Netherlands, who publish their findings in the journal Antiquity – where the argument has been rumbling on for several years – completely reject the latter theory.
(2) Hannibal, son of general Hamilcar who led troops in the first Punic war, gave Carthage its most glorious hour.
(3) So ended the second Punic war, with Rome the victor.