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  • CARTHAGE   (source)
  • So, as he tiptoed into the Finns' bedroom, he called upon Venus to veil him in a mist— just as she had for her son, Aeneas, when he wandered the streets of Carthage—so that his footfalls would be silent, his heartbeat still, and his presence in the room no more notable than a breath of air.†   (source)
  • The destruction of Carthage.†   (source)
  • They left Carthage this morning.†   (source)
  • At the age of sixteen he went to Carthage to study.†   (source)
  • Carthage, the Gauls—†   (source)
  • So superbly was it in the present that it seemed to have nothing to do with the passage of time: time might have dismissed it as thoroughly as it had dismissed Carthage and Pompeii.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, there was no human power capable of persuading him not to take along the three boxes when he returned to his native village, and he unleashed a string of Carthaginian curses at the railroad inspectors who tried to ship them as freight until he finally succeeded in keeping them with him in the passenger coach.†   (source)
  • But the demolition of Carthage (what one should think should have established it in supreme dominion) by removing all danger, suffered it to sink into debauchery, and made it at length an easy prey to Barbarians.†   (source)
  • The Carthaginians never forgot.†   (source)
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  • Gomorrah…… You think you're going to be happy here in New Carthage, eh?†   (source)
  • And our history is such that were we to follow it in making policy we should declare war not only on our former possessions in Libya, but on Britain, Spain, Germany, France, Austria, and Carthage.†   (source)
  • Representation in Athens, Carthage   (source)
  • "Carthage versus Rome, to use an Earthly metaphor," Gorku said.†   (source)
  • You really are from Fort Carthage, aren't you.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work.†   (source)
  • Everybody knows that Carthage was destroyed!†   (source)
  • First it was just a carnival at Carthage, and I had to let them guess my weight … and after that …†   (source)
  • I was back in Carthage before dinnertime.†   (source)
  • Westerberg, in his mid-thirties, was brought to Carthage as a young boy by adoptive parents.†   (source)
  • I have been working up here in Carthage South Dakota for nearly two weeks now.†   (source)
  • The downfall of the mall basically bankrupted Carthage.†   (source)
  • Better if it's someone in Carthage, though.†   (source)
  • The attachment McCandless felt for Carthage remained powerful, however.†   (source)
  • Amy was thirty-seven when we moved to Carthage.†   (source)
  • McCandless quickly became enamored of Carthage.†   (source)
  • Amy was conceding Carthage, finally forgiving me for moving back here.†   (source)
  • Postcard received by Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota†   (source)
  • "New Carthage, you mean?" she'd replied.†   (source)
  • On McCandless's final night in Carthage, he partied hard at the Cabaret with Westerberg's crew.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: …. thank you …. and settled in a town just like nouveau Carthage here ….†   (source)
  • Athens and Carthage were commercial republics, yet they often fought wars.†   (source)
  • They were new folks, just come up from the area around Carthage.†   (source)
  • "The metaphor of Carthage. or the Phoenicians rather, is apt," Gorku said, setting down his tongs.†   (source)
  • A time when Rome battled the city of Carthage, and over the course of many wars was victorious.†   (source)
  • "That rogue with the turkey leg in his mouth," Antinous continued, "that's Hasdrubal of Carthage.†   (source)
  • Annabeth cut down Hasdrubal the Carthaginian, and Jason made the mistake of sheathing his sword.†   (source)
  • Now they're calling for that whisky-dealing tyrant from Carthage City to come up here and take over.†   (source)
  • But you sure didn't get drunk at Fort Carthage and then walk all this way without sobering up.†   (source)
  • Since these folks came from Carthage country, the cellar door had a lock, as well as the bar.†   (source)
  • "Down here's Fort Carthage, it's got a square, cause it's a town.†   (source)
  • No, you're the smartest governor Carthage ever had, I'm surprised you ain't King.†   (source)
  • In fact Lolla-Wossiky never saw such a man in Carthage City.†   (source)
  • Carthage City's gone and turned into a river town, a saloon town.†   (source)
  • So Hooch was about as happy a man as you ever saw when they tied up at the Carthage City Wharf.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Armor here, we got no stockade and we got no U.S. Army fort closer than Carthage City.†   (source)
  • With the Reds gone, why wasn't Carthage City prosperous, full of White settlers?†   (source)
  • I'm sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that.†   (source)
  • Later he traveled to Rome and Milan, and lived the last years of his life in the town of Hippo, a few miles west of Carthage.†   (source)
  • He'd heard from Wayne Westerberg that a job was waiting for him at the grain elevator in Carthage, and he was eager to get there.†   (source)
  • "See, I misread this, thinking that bringing me here meant Carthage, but again, she's referring to my father's house, and—"†   (source)
  • The chill Westerberg sensed between Alex and his parents stood in marked contrast to the warmth McCandless exhibited in Carthage.†   (source)
  • I headed through our complex, then forty-five minutes out along River Road, then onto the highway that shot right through the middle of Carthage.†   (source)
  • Nick Dunne, a onetime magazine writer still pride-wounded from a 2010 layoff, agreed to teach a journalism class for North Carthage Junior College.†   (source)
  • Before McCandless and Westerberg went their separate ways, Westerberg told the young man to look him up in Carthage if he ever needed a job.†   (source)
  • When we'd been back home for a year, I'd asked her faux gallantly: "And how are you liking North Carthage, Mrs. Dunne?"†   (source)
  • And McCandless stayed in touch with Westerberg as he roamed the West, calling or writing Carthage every month or two.†   (source)
  • We talked for hours about books; there aren't that many people in Carthage who like to talk about books.†   (source)
  • Carthage had gone bust; its sister city Hannibal was losing ground to brighter, louder, cartoonier tourist spots.†   (source)
  • Shawna Kelly, North Carthage resident: "I found it really, really strange how totally unconcerned he was at the search for his wife.†   (source)
  • On April 21, just six days out of Carthage, he arrived at Liard River Hotsprings, at the threshold of the Yukon Territory.†   (source)
  • Hell, I had to love her hungry-kid chutzpah: Just fly me to Carthage—the major networks haven't gotten him, but I'm sure I can!†   (source)
  • There, outside Cut Bank, he crossed paths with Wayne Westerberg and by the end of September was working for him in Carthage.†   (source)
  • As soon as he got to Carthage, a dispirited Westerberg phoned the Alaska State Troopers to volunteer what he knew about McCandless.†   (source)
  • Nick was my professor at North Carthage Junior College, and we became friendly, and then the relationship became more.†   (source)
  • During those four weeks in Carthage, McCandless worked hard, doing dirty, tedious jobs that nobody else wanted to tackle: mucking out warehouses, exterminating vermin, painting, scything weeds.†   (source)
  • Riordan was asking me for the second time if I'd seen any strangers in the neighborhood lately, was reminding me for the third time about Carthage's roving bands of homeless men, when the phone rang.†   (source)
  • You all really need to try Houston's, my mom had said when we moved back, thinking it was Carthage's unique little secret, hoping it might please my wife.†   (source)
  • Contrite, he copped a plea to a single felony count and on October 10, 1990, some two weeks after McCandless arrived in Carthage, began serving a four-month sentence in Sioux Falls.†   (source)
  • Carthage was, until a year ago, a company town and that company was the sprawling Riverway Mall, a tiny city unto itself that once employed four thousand locals—one-fifth the population.†   (source)
  • On April 15, 1992, Chris McCandless departed Carthage, South Dakota, in the cab of a Mack truck hauling a load of sunflower seeds: His "great Alaskan odyssey" was under way.†   (source)
  • Carthage had a bigger drug epidemic than I ever knew: The cops had been here just yesterday, and already the druggies had resettled, like determined flies.†   (source)
  • Seven months earlier, on a frosty March afternoon, McCandless had ambled into the office at the Carthage grain elevator and announced that he was ready to go to work.†   (source)
  • Across the top of the first one, dating from McCandless's initial visit to Carthage, in 1990, he had scrawled"EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT EXEMPT" and given his name as Iris Fucyu.†   (source)
  • The media followed us as if we were a royal wedding procession, the two of us whizzing through the neon, fast-food-cluttered streets of Carthage to our McMansion on the river.†   (source)
  • Carthage had become a bit (a very tiny bit) less Caucasian while I was away, but it was still so severely segregated that the only people of color I saw in my daily routine tended to be occupational roamers: delivery men, medics, postal workers.†   (source)
  • If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.†   (source)
  • On September 13, he was rolling down an empty ribbon of blacktop outside Jamestown, North Dakota, leading his harvest crew home to Carthage after wrapping up the four-month cutting season in Montana, when the VHP barked to life.†   (source)
  • Tanner had sworn he couldn't stay in Carthage, at the Days Inn, out of respect for Amy's parents, but Go and I both suspected he couldn't stay in Carthage because the closest five-star hotel was in St. Louis.†   (source)
  • I smile again as I shift my crappy getaway car into fifth gear (Carthage now seventy-eight miles in the dust) and brace myself for a speeding truck—the car seems ready to take flight every time a semi passes.†   (source)
  • Soon after McCandless returned to Carthage that spring, Westerberg introduced him to his longtime, on-again, off-again girlfriend, Gail Borah, a petite, sad-eyed woman, as slight as a heron, with delicate features and long blond hair.†   (source)
  • Margo, calling from good ole North Carthage, Missouri, from the house where we grew up, and as I listened to her voice, I saw her at age ten, with a dark cap of hair and overall shorts, sitting on our grandparents' back dock, her body slouched over like an old pillow, her skinny legs dangling in the water, watching the river flow over fish-white feet, so intently, utterly self-possessed even as a child.†   (source)
  • Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses, tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time.†   (source)
  • An all-points bulletin turned up a missing person named McCandless from eastern South Dakota, coincidentally from a small town only twenty miles from Wayne Westerberg's home in Carthage, and for a while the troopers thought they'd found their man.†   (source)
  • Hell, it wasn't even original, being one of two Carthage, Missouris—ours is technically North Carthage, which makes it sound like a twin city, although it's hundreds of miles from the other and the lesser of the two: a quaint little 1950s town that bloated itself into a basic midsize suburb and dubbed it progress.†   (source)
  • Westerberg, a hyperkinetic man with thick shoulders and a black goatee, owns a grain elevator in Carthage and another one a few miles out of town but spends every summer running a custom combine crew that follows the harvest from Texas north to the Canadian border.†   (source)
  • CARTHAGE   (source)
  • He liked Carthage.†   (source)
  • …of cowhide one sees a rendering of a two-lane blacktop, a NO-U-TURN sign, a thunderstorm producing a flash flood that engulfs a car, a hitchhiker's thumb, an eagle, the Sierra Nevada, salmon cavorting in the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Coast Highway from Oregon to Washington, the Rocky Mountains, Montana wheat fields, a South Dakota rattlesnake, Westerberg's house in Carthage, the Colorado River, a gale in the Gulf of California, a canoe beached beside a tent, Las Vegas, the initialsT.†   (source)
  • "Mhhmm," said the Carthaginian.†   (source)
  • Drawing on history and literature, some fifty books altogether, he examined what he called the modern democratic republics (the little Italian commonwealth of San Marino, Biscay in the Basque region of Spain, the Swiss cantons), modern aristocratic republics (Venice, the Netherlands), and the modern monarchical and regal republics (England, Poland); as well as the ancient democratic, aristocratic, and monarchical republics including Carthage, Athens, Sparta, and Rome.†   (source)
  • After one of the wars, Rome demanded that Carthage pay them tribute, that Carthage abandon their army, and that the land of Carthage be sowed with salt.†   (source)
  • The senate in Carthage is less known.†   (source)
  • GEORGE: …. but somewhere back there, at the beginning of it, right when I first came to New Carthage, back then ….†   (source)
  • All the faculty wives, downtown in New Carthage, in front of the A&P, hissing away like a bunch of geese.†   (source)
  • The senate of Carthage, whatever its power or term in office, appears to have been elected by the people.†   (source)
  • We can add Carthage to these examples.†   (source)
  • A teacher at a respected, conservative institution like this, in a town like New Carthage, publishing a book like that?†   (source)
  • And all that was left, aside from some wart medicine, was a big fat will…… A peach pie, with some for the township of New Carthage, some for the college, some for Martha's daddy, and just this much for Martha.†   (source)
  • But that sign, naming Wobbish a state and Carthage its capital, why, that might actually have some power in it, power over the way folks thought.†   (source)
  • "I know that much--there's plenty of folks from down Carthage way who hate Ta-Kumsaw already, from his running off their livestock earlier this year.†   (source)
  • " Lolla-Wossiky hadn't the faintest idea what a minister was--there was no such thing in Carthage City.†   (source)
  • When Lolla-Wossiky left Ta-Kumsaw standing by the gate of Fort Carthage, he knew what his brother thought.†   (source)
  • "I been coming to Carthage City for nigh on seven years now, and the last four years I've had a monopoly--"†   (source)
  • And sure enough, there was about fifty chimney fires outside the stockade this time, which meant Carthage City was almost up to being a village.†   (source)
  • A dozen men down to Carthage City and beg Bill Harrison to send us up an army, and maybe bring his cannon if he can.†   (source)
  • Incredibly, even now, when there hadn't been new likker in Carthage City in four months, Lolla-Wossiky was pickled.†   (source)
  • So Hooch was a little surprised that this Jackson was big enough now to have business that would take him clear from Tennizy up to Carthage City.†   (source)
  • Jackson carefully presented all the same invoices and receipts to prove that every keg of whisky was sold to the sutler of Carthage Fort, and not a speck of it to any Reds.†   (source)
  • " "If he's from Carthage, he learned to talk English from a class of White man that thinks words like 'damn' are punctuation, if you catch my drift, Reverend.†   (source)
  • So he called together all the Reds around Carthage City--it was nigh onto a whisky day, so there wasn't no shortage of audience for him--and he gave them a speech.†   (source)
  • Some Red yelled, "Carthage City!" and Hooch hollered back, "That's right!" and the canoes just zipped on down the Hio, heading for where that likker would soon be sold.†   (source)
  • So Hooch figured that if Harrison got enough people to see a sign that named Carthage as the capital of the state of Wobbish, someday it'd plumb come to be.†   (source)
  • In big letters it said CARTHAGE CITY and in smaller letters it said CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF WOBBISH which was just the sort of thing old Bill would think of.†   (source)
  • Fact is, though, Hooch didn't much care whether it was Harrison who got to be governor and put his capital in Carthage City, or whether it was that teetotaling self-righteous prig Armor-of-God Weaver up north, where Tippy-Canoe Creek flowed into the Wobbish River, who got to be governor and make Vigor Church the capital.†   (source)
  • No canoe came too close, no arrow whizzed in to thud and twang against a keg, and Hooch and his kegs and casks and firkins and barrels all slipped along the top of the water peaceful as you please, clear to Carthage City, which was Governor Harrison's high-falutin name for a stockade with a hundred soldiers right smack where the Little My-Ammy River met the Hio.†   (source)
  • He might help another man sit in the governor's mansion, someday when Carthage was a real city and Wobbish was a real state, and then Harrison would have to sit there the rest of his life and remember what it was like to be able to lock people up, and he would grind his teeth in anger at how men like Hooch took all that away from him.†   (source)
  • A down-and-out called Flyte, who people said was an English lord, whom the fathers had found starving and taken in at a monastery near Carthage.†   (source)
  • He remembered from some time way back in the past how he had read of the Carthaginian slaves and what they did and how they were treated.†   (source)
  • He thought of the Carthaginian slaves down in the darkness blinded and chained and he thought they were lucky guys.†   (source)
  • How the great Carthaginian lords wanting someone to guard their treasure stores would find a healthy young man and put out his eyes with sharp sticks so he wouldn't be able to see where they took him and thus learn the location of their treasures.†   (source)
  • Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal.†   (source)
  • My people humble people who expect Nothing. la la To Carthage then I came 307 Burning burning burning burning 308 O Lord Thou pluckest me out 309 O Lord Thou pluckest burning Title Page†   (source)
  • …that comes on those to whom life denies nothing; and had peered through a clear emerald at the red shambles of the Circus, and then, in a litter of pearl and purple drawn by silver-shod mules, been carried through the Street of Pomegranates to a House of Gold, and heard men cry on Nero Caesar as he passed by; and, as Elagabalus, had painted his face with colours, and plied the distaff among the women, and brought the Moon from Carthage, and given her in mystic marriage to the Sun.†   (source)
  • That Royal port and watering place, if truly mirrored in the minds of the heath-folk, must have combined, in a charming and indescribable manner, a Carthaginian bustle of building with Tarentine luxuriousness and Baian health and beauty.†   (source)
  • Ere long Marseilles presented herself to view,—Marseilles, white, fervid, full of life and energy,—Marseilles, the younger sister of Tyre and Carthage, the successor to them in the empire of the Mediterranean,—Marseilles, old, yet always young.†   (source)
  • Thus he learned that, after long persecutions, Smith reappeared in Illinois, and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo, on the Mississippi, numbering twenty-five thousand souls, of which he became mayor, chief justice, and general-in-chief; that he announced himself, in 1843, as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States; and that finally, being drawn into ambuscade at Carthage, he was thrown into prison, and assassinated by a band of men disguised in masks.†   (source)
  • Tom, therefore, in his well-brushed broadcloth suit, smooth beaver, glossy boots, faultless wristbands and collar, with his grave, good-natured black face, looked respectable enough to be a Bishop of Carthage, as men of his color were, in other ages.†   (source)
  • Besides though New Bedford has of late been gradually monopolising the business of whaling, and though in this matter poor old Nantucket is now much behind her, yet Nantucket was her great original—the Tyre of this Carthage;—the place where the first dead American whale was stranded.†   (source)
  • …it would require volumes to develop: in the high Orient, the cradle of primitive times, after Hindoo architecture came Phoenician architecture, that opulent mother of Arabian architecture; in antiquity, after Egyptian architecture, of which Etruscan style and cyclopean monuments are but one variety, came Greek architecture (of which the Roman style is only a continuation), surcharged with the Carthaginian dome; in modern times, after Romanesque architecture came Gothic architecture.†   (source)
  • In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals.†   (source)
  • And here Bartleby makes his home; sole spectator of a solitude which he has seen all populous—a sort of innocent and transformed Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage!†   (source)
  • A major sea nearly unknown to the ancients, except perhaps the Carthaginians, those Dutchmen of antiquity who went along the west coasts of Europe and Africa on their commercial junkets!†   (source)
  • In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit.†   (source)
  • A strapper — a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had.†   (source)
  • The amount saved, being sums I drew from Rome, Alexandria, Damascus, Carthage, Valentia, and elsewhere within the circle of trade, was one hundred and twenty talents Jewish money.†   (source)
  • I hate Carthage.†   (source)
  • This service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two Carthaginian soldiers talk Phoenician; that service Moliere rendered, by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of dialects.†   (source)
  • The Romans, in order to hold Capua, Carthage, and Numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them.†   (source)
  • The Carthaginians, reduced to extreme necessity, were compelled to come to terms with Agathocles, and, leaving Sicily to him, had to be content with the possession of Africa.†   (source)
  • Of ancient mercenaries, for example, there are the Carthaginians, who were oppressed by their mercenary soldiers after the first war with the Romans, although the Carthaginians had their own citizens for captains.†   (source)
  • And although he was twice routed by the Carthaginians, and ultimately besieged, yet not only was he able to defend his city, but leaving part of his men for its defence, with the others he attacked Africa, and in a short time raised the siege of Syracuse.†   (source)
  • Being established in that position, and having deliberately resolved to make himself prince and to seize by violence, without obligation to others, that which had been conceded to him by assent, he came to an understanding for this purpose with Amilcar, the Carthaginian, who, with his army, was fighting in Sicily.†   (source)
  • Sparta, Rome, and Carthage are, in fact, the only states to whom that character can be applied.†   (source)
  • What shall I say of Hasdrubale's wife, That at Carthage bereft herself of life?†   (source)
  • And would to Heav'n, the Storm, you felt, would bring On Carthaginian coasts your wand'ring king.†   (source)
  • Then Carthage may th' Ausonian towns destroy, Nor fear the race of a rejected boy.†   (source)
  • You make me study of that; she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.†   (source)
  • Eliza shall a Dardan lord obey, And lofty Carthage for a dow'r convey."†   (source)
  • The rising city, which from far you see, Is Carthage, and a Tyrian colony.†   (source)
  • O Tranio! till I found it to be true, I never thought it possible or likely; But see, while idly I stood looking on, I found the effect of love in idleness; And now in plainness do confess to thee, That art to me as secret and as dear As Anna to the Queen of Carthage was, Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio, If I achieve not this young modest girl.†   (source)
  • I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow, with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen, When the false Trojan under sail was seen,— By all the vows that ever men have broke, In number more than ever women spoke,— In that same place thou hast appointed me, Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.†   (source)
  • In such a night Stood Dido with a willow in her hand Upon the wild sea-banks, and waft her love To come again to Carthage.†   (source)
  • _ Of which we wish we could give our readers a more adequate translation than that by Mr Creech— When dreadful Carthage frighted Rome with arms, And all the world was shook with fierce alarms; Whilst undecided yet, which part should fall, Which nation rise the glorious lord of all.†   (source)
  • Had I fallen in with those gentlemen, Troy would not have been burned or Carthage destroyed, for it would have been only for me to slay Paris, and all these misfortunes would have been avoided.†   (source)
  • The fate of the Romans, Carthaginians, and Syrians, and many other nations and cities, which were both overturned and quite ruined by those standing armies, should make others wiser; and the folly of this maxim of the French appears plainly even from this, that their trained soldiers often find your raw men prove too hard for them, of which I will not say much, lest you may think I flatter the English.†   (source)
  • I assure you, Carthage.†   (source)
  • Lusitania had a Viriatus, Rome a Caesar, Carthage a Hannibal, Greece an Alexander, Castile a Count Fernan Gonzalez, Valencia a Cid, Andalusia a Gonzalo Fernandez, Estremadura a Diego Garcia de Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct the loftiest minds and fill them with delight and wonder.†   (source)
  • But sov'reignly* Dame Partelote shright,** *above all others Full louder than did Hasdrubale's wife, **shrieked When that her husband hadde lost his life, And that the Romans had y-burnt Carthage; She was so full of torment and of rage, That wilfully into the fire she start, And burnt herselfe with a steadfast heart.†   (source)
  • Carthage, though a commercial republic, was the aggressor in the very war that ended in her destruction.†   (source)
  • This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.†   (source)
  • * *he drowned his But of his craft to reckon well his tides, prisoners* His streames and his strandes him besides, His herberow*, his moon, and lodemanage**, *harbourage There was none such, from Hull unto Carthage **pilotage<35> Hardy he was, and wise, I undertake: With many a tempest had his beard been shake.†   (source)
  • Sparta, Athens, Rome, and Carthage were all republics; two of them, Athens and Carthage, of the commercial kind.†   (source)
  • Carthage?†   (source)
  • The senate of Carthage, also, whatever might be its power, or the duration of its appointment, appears to have been ELECTIVE by the suffrages of the people.†   (source)
  • Hannibal had carried her arms into the heart of Italy and to the gates of Rome, before Scipio, in turn, gave him an overthrow in the territories of Carthage, and made a conquest of the commonwealth.†   (source)
  • Who can omit the Gracchi? who declare The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war, The double bane of Carthage?†   (source)
  • Not less the clamor, than if— ancient Tyre, Or the new Carthage, set by foes on fireThe rolling ruin, with their lov'd abodes, Involv'd the blazing temples of their gods.†   (source)
  • To these examples might be added that of Carthage, whose senate, according to the testimony of Polybius, instead of drawing all power into its vortex, had, at the commencement of the second Punic War, lost almost the whole of its original portion.†   (source)
  • Yet she had heard an ancient rumor fly, (Long cited by the people of the sky,) That times to come should see the Trojan race Her Carthage ruin, and her tow'rs deface; Nor thus confin'd, the yoke of sov'reign sway Should on the necks of all the nations lay.†   (source)
  • Against the Tiber's mouth, but far away, An ancient town was seated on the sea; A Tyrian colony; the people made Stout for the war, and studious of their trade: Carthage the name; belov'd by Juno more Than her own Argos, or the Samian shore.†   (source)
  • I know not, if by stress of weather driv'n, Or was their fatal course dispos'd by Heav'n; At last they landed, where from far your eyes May view the turrets of new Carthage rise; There bought a space of ground, which (Byrsa call'd, From the bull's hide) they first inclos'd, and wall'd.†   (source)
  • The mighty Thund'rer heard; Then cast his eyes on Carthage, where he found The lustful pair in lawless pleasure drown'd, Lost in their loves, insensible of shame, And both forgetful of their better fame.†   (source)
  • A lawful time of war at length will come, (Nor need your haste anticipate the doom), When Carthage shall contend the world with Rome, Shall force the rigid rocks and Alpine chains, And, like a flood, come pouring on the plains.†   (source)
  • He calls Cyllenius, and the god attends, By whom his menacing command he sends: "Go, mount the western winds, and cleave the sky; Then, with a swift descent, to Carthage fly: There find the Trojan chief, who wastes his days In slothful not and inglorious ease, Nor minds the future city, giv'n by fate.†   (source)
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