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... Carthage ... ..69 III . History of Carthage from the Foundation of the City to the Com- mencement of the Syracusan Wars ... .70 IV . History of Carthage during the Sicilian Wars . .73 V. From the Commencement of the Roman Wars to the ...
... Carthage ... ..69 III . History of Carthage from the Foundation of the City to the Com- mencement of the Syracusan Wars ... .70 IV . History of Carthage during the Sicilian Wars . .73 V. From the Commencement of the Roman Wars to the ...
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... Carthage ( about B. c . 900 ) . Dído , the wife of Sicha'us , aided by numerous Tyrians , escaped by sea with her husband's treasures , and sought a new country on the northern shores of Africa . Here she erected the city of Carthage ...
... Carthage ( about B. c . 900 ) . Dído , the wife of Sicha'us , aided by numerous Tyrians , escaped by sea with her husband's treasures , and sought a new country on the northern shores of Africa . Here she erected the city of Carthage ...
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... Carthage , Utica , & c . , attained greater splendor than any of the other Phoenician cities , and rivalled Tyre itself in wealth and magnificence . It is exceedingly probable that they had also settlements in western Africa , and that ...
... Carthage , Utica , & c . , attained greater splendor than any of the other Phoenician cities , and rivalled Tyre itself in wealth and magnificence . It is exceedingly probable that they had also settlements in western Africa , and that ...
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... Carthage , which forms the modern kingdom of Túnis ; 5 , a very fruitful country subject to the Carthagin- ians , the northern part of which was named Byzacéna , and the south- ern Zeugitána ; and , 6 , Numid'ia and Mauritánia ...
... Carthage , which forms the modern kingdom of Túnis ; 5 , a very fruitful country subject to the Carthagin- ians , the northern part of which was named Byzacéna , and the south- ern Zeugitána ; and , 6 , Numid'ia and Mauritánia ...
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... Carthage ; the former being about nine , and the latter only six miles distant it was joined to the land by an isthmus averaging three miles in length ; and on the seaside there ... CARTHAGE . 69 Social and Political Condition of Carthage.
... Carthage ; the former being about nine , and the latter only six miles distant it was joined to the land by an isthmus averaging three miles in length ; and on the seaside there ... CARTHAGE . 69 Social and Political Condition of Carthage.
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