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Carthaginian

noun

A native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage.

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language. Synonym: Punic. "Carthaginian peace"

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... with tumultuous rage, This warrior shall the dangerous storm assuage: With victories he the Carthaginian mauls, And with strong hand shall ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... is most important, and I accept it. But to take up again the main thread of my discourse. General Lee undoubtedly had the example of the Carthaginian army and Capua in mind when he left Gettysburg and returned toward the South. Philadelphia is a great city, far larger and richer than any in our section. It is filled with magnificent houses, beautiful women, luxury ...

— The Shades of the Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler

... way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused to salute Flaminius, and who had a ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... cavil, let us be content to waive the testimony of Papias as precarious, and that of Justin Martyr as too fragmentary to be decisive. Let us frankly admit that the citation of Vincentius a Thibari at the viith Carthaginian Council is sufficiently inexact to make it unsafe to build upon it. The "Acta Pilati" and the "Apostolical Constitutions," since their date is somewhat doubtful, shall be claimed for the ivth century only, and not for the iiird. And now, how will the evidence stand for the last Twelve Verses of ...

— The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark • John Burgon

... his cheerfulness under hardships, and the manner in which, cut off for years from all assistance from home, he had yet supported the struggle and held Rome at bay, had filled him with the greatest admiration, and unconsciously he had made the great Carthaginian his model. He was therefore much disappointed when he heard from the conversation of his guards that they were to traverse Gaul to Massilia, and ...

— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty

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