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- proper noun Plural form of
Carthaginian .
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Examples
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Greeks and Romans told the story, and for them the Carthaginians were the enemy.
An Empire of the Mediterranean Adrian Goldsworthy 2011
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Hannibal, in extreme grief, called his Carthaginians together to an harangue; and vehemently prayed them, to fight today worthily of all their former successes;
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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The religion of the Carthaginians was the old Canaanitish worship of Baal, or the Sun.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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But the Carthaginians were a race, not of warriors, but of colonists.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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The author gives a detailed description of the Greeks and of the Carthaginians, that is, the French and their former enemies, the English: Greece, owing to her intellectual and artistic predominance, seemed to lead the rest of the world, and Athens led Greece.
Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. VII 1916
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Syphax and Masinissa would both prefer that they rather than the Carthaginians should be the leading powers in Africa, but failing that, they would rather have the Carthaginians than any one else.
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The tribes who revolted to the Carthaginians were the Atellani, the Calatini, the Hirpini, a section of the Apulians, all the Samnite cantons with the exception of the Pentri, all the Bruttii and the Lucanians.
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The Carthaginians were a maritime people, and it is known that they extended their discoveries beyond the narrow sphere which had hitherto limited the enterprise of the mariner.
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An interesting question has been raised as to whether the elephants used by the Carthaginians were the African species or the Indian.
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The Phoenicians, who formed the main strength of his navy, declined to take any part in an attack on Carthage, since the Carthaginians were their colonists, and the relations between the two people had always been friendly.
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