Punic War Definition

noun
Any of the three wars (264–241, 218–201, and 149–146 bc ) fought between Rome and Carthage, resulting ultimately in the destruction of Carthage and the gain by the Romans of its territory in Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Africa, and Spain.
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Noun

Singular:
Punic War
Plural:
Punic Wars

Punic War Sentence Examples

  • In the First Punic War, however, it was sacked by the Romans (261) and the Carthaginians (255), and finally in the Second Punic War by the Romans (210).

  • There are signs of trade with Etruria as early as the 7th century B.C. The Carthaginians made it into an important grainproducing centre; and the Romans set foot in the island more than once during the First Punic War.

  • Cassius Hemina (about 146), in the fourth book of his Annals, wrote on the Second Punic War.

  • At the outbreak of the Second Punic War (219 B.C.) it was a large and commercially prosperous town of native - not Greek - origin.

  • The First Punic War having exhausted the treasury, the as was reduced to 2 OZ.

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