Punic Synonyms

pyo͝onĭk
Of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. carthaginian
Tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. perfidious
  2. treacherous

Punic Sentence Examples

  • It was the first town to surrender to the Romans in the First Punic War, and was granted freedom and immunity from tithe.

  • It remained in the hands of the Romans during both the Punic and the Social Wars, and was a fortress of importance to them.

  • Radermacher assigns the Asinaria to a date as early as 212 B.C. Of the extant plays the Cistellaria and the Stichus must be associated with the Miles as comparatively early works; for the former was clearly produced before (though not long before) the conclusion of the Second Punic War, see 1.201 seq.; and the Stichus is proved by its didascalia to have been produced in 200 B.C. The Pseudolus and the Truculentus fall within the last seven years of his life.

  • In 210 B.C. this important place, the headquarters and treasure city of the Punic army, was stormed and taken with great slaughter by P. Scipio.

  • The reign of Domitian, although it silenced the more independent spirits of the time, Tacitus and Juvenal, witnessed more important contributions to Roman literature than any age since the Augustan, - among them the Institutes of Quintilian, the Punic War of Silius Italicus, the epics and the Silvae of Statius, and the Epigrams of Martial.

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