Sample Sentences for
Punic Wars
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    Vitellius, Caesar was hundreds of years after the Punic Wars.†  (source)
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    Mary, I have seen many cases like this before when I worked as a doctor's aide during the Punic Wars.†  (source)
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    GEORGE (At the bar, still) When I was sixteen and going to prep school, during the Punic Wars, a bunch of us used to go into New York on the first day of vacations, before we fanned out to our homes, and in the evening this bunch of us used to go to this gin mill owned by the gangster father of one of us—for this was during the Great Experiment, or Prohibition, as it is more frequently called, and it was a bad time for the liquor lobby, but a fine time for the crooks and the cops—and we would go to this gin mill, and we would drink with the grown-ups and listen to the jazz.†  (source)
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    Go back to Caesar's taxes and the Punic wars.†  (source)
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    Polynius says that instead of becoming all-powerful, at the start of the second Punic War, its senate had lost almost all of its power.†  (source)
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    That's how we did it in the Punic Wars.†  (source)
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    [2] The spoils of the battle of Canon, in the second Punic War†  (source)
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    It was the woman in the elevator who had joked about Caesar's taxes and the Punic wars, the doctor who had stood beside him at the hotel desk, asking for the cable she knew was there.†  (source)
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    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)
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