Identifier: romecarthagepuni00smit (find matches)
Title: Rome and Carthage, the Punic wars;
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, R. Bosworth (Reginald Bosworth), 1839-1908
Subjects: Punic wars
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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giving them the coup de grace. Already before thisa new commission had been sent out with old MarcusCato at its head. It proved to be an evil day for Car-thage. The Censor had passed through the rich districtswhich still remained to her. He had been amazed atthe wealth, the population, aAd the resources of thecity, which he had believed was crushed ; and he returnedhome with his narrow mind thoroughly impressed withthe belief that if Rome was to be saved, Carthage mustbe destroyed, Cato brought to the consideration of everysubject a mind thoroughly made up upon it. No oneever reasoned him out of an opinion he had formed.He exhibited in the Senate some figs as remarkable fortheir freshness as their size ; and telUng the admiringsenators that they grew in Carthaginian territory onlythree days sail from Rome, he ended his speech thatday, and everv speech which he delivered in the Senateafterwards, whatever the subject under debate, with thememorable words—Carthage must be blotted out.
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RUSSELL i. STKUTHERS, ENGS, N. Y. Topography of Carthage. 239 CHAPTER XIX. DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE.(149-146 B.C.) Our knowledge of the Third Punic War is derived al-most exclusively from Appian, a mere compiler, whodid not live till the time of the EmperorHadrian, and whose accuracy, where he ^°^°f(ha^Jdraws upon his own resources, may bejudged from the fact that he places Saguntum to thenorth of the Ebro, and makes Britain only half a dayssail from Spain. Fortunately for us, however, there isgood reason to believe that his account of the fall ofCarthage is drawn directly from Polybius, who not onlystands in the highest rank as an historian, but was him-self present and bore a part in the scenes which he de-scribed, and here, perhaps, before we look upon thelast scene of all, will be the place to describe, as cearlyas we can, the position, the fortifications, and the ap-pearance of the imperial city. We noticed, at the out-set, the strange obscurity which hangs over the origin,the r

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