place
Carthage
also: Carthago, Carthagine
The great North African rival of Rome; Scipio Aemilianus took his honorific 'Africanus' from its destruction in 146 BC.
Reading notes
- The Odes §3.5 Carthage
'Mighty Carthage, raised the higher' on Italy's shame, in Regulus's bitter cry.
- The Odes §4.8 Carthage
'Impious Carthage,' whose burning the public monuments commemorate.
- The Epodes §7 Carthage
Rome's great rival in the Punic Wars; her citadels are the proper target the Romans ignore for fratricide.
- The Satires §2.1 crushed Carthage
Rome's great African rival, destroyed by Scipio Aemilianus in 146 BC, the conquest from which he took his honorific 'Africanus.'