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    punic


    1. The Romans, at the end of the first Punic war, reduced the As, the coin or denomination by which they computed the value of all their other coins, from containing twelve ounces of copper, to contain only two ounces; that is, they raised two ounces of copper to a denomination which had always before expressed the value of twelve ounces


    2. In the course of the second Punic war, the As was still further reduced, first, from two ounces of copper to one ounce, and afterwards from one ounce to half an ounce ; that is, to the twenty-fourth part of its original value


    3. , during the Second Punic War


    4. That war, the First Punic War, drug on until 241 BC and ended with Roman victory and the addition of Sicily to its growing empire


    5. Following the First Punic War, Carthage and Rome agreed to maintain separate spheres of influence in Spain; but after the Spanish city of Saguntum allied with Rome and revolted against Carthage, the invasion of Saguntum by Carthage prompted Rome to again declare war on Carthage


    6. And in the Second Punic War, that dragged on from 218 to 201 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal famously marched an army, including elephants, through Spain and Gaul, and over the Alps into Italy where he repeatedly routed the Romans


    7. Carthage the Second Punic War, and their interest in Spain, which was added to the empire as another Roman province


    8. Hannibal (247-182 BC) was the Carthaginian General who precipitated the second Punic War by attacking the town of Saguntum in Spain, an ally of Rome


    9. The symbol of Tanit can be found on most of the grave markers in any Punic necropolis


    10. During the period after the First Punic War (264-241 B

    11. till the end of the second Punic war in 201B


    12. This punic labor, incontestably authorized by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe


    13. The Roman vessels in the first Punic war were over 100 feet long and had 300 rowers, while they carried 120 soldiers


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    Synonyms for "punic"

    punic perfidious treacherous carthaginian

    "punic" definitions

    the Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage


    of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language


    tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans