Carthaginians

and Aristotle, Polybius, and Diodorus give the names of Kings to the Suffetes or Judges of the Carthaginians.

“It is not the subject of inquiry whether Hannibal has besieged Saguntum, by his own private or by public authority, but whether justly or unjustly.

Aristotle, in describing the requisites, which fit men for servitude, says, that “those men, whose powers arechiefly confined to the body, and whose principal excellence consists in affording bodily service, are naturally slaves, because it is their interest to be so.

The Phocaeans also manned their ships, sixty in number, and met the enemy in the sea called Sardonian.

But they harassed and plundered all their neighbors, as a result of which the Tyrrhenians and Carthaginians made common cause against them, and sailed to attack them with sixty ships each.

As for the crews of the disabled ships, the Carthaginians and Tyrrhenians drew lots for them, and of the Tyrrhenians the Agyllaioi were allotted by far the majority and these they led out and stoned to death.

but they are always in fear that they may some time or other find the Athenians coming against their country;

and then also to make an attempt on the dominion of the Carthaginians, and on their own city.

and after coasting along thence to Neapolis, an emporium of the Carthaginians, from which the distance is shortest to Sicily, namely, a voyage of two days and a night, they crossed over there from that place, and arrived at Selinus.

And the Carthaginians—Hanno made them Libyans instead of Tyrians, made them dwell in Libya instead of Phoenicia, and possess much wealth and many trading-posts and harbors and triremes, and rule over much land and much sea.

And so likewise the Romans might perhaps call Numa their daimon, the Carthaginians Hanno and Hannibal, the Macedonians Alexander or Philip—who made the Macedonians, lowly and weak as they were, and after his father had ceded the rule to the Olynthians, strong and warlike and masters of well-nigh all Europe.

the Syracusans, your colonists, in many wars against the Carthaginians and the other barbarians who inhabit Sicily and Italy, had run short of bronze and of coinage;

So the year ended, being the year in which the Carthaginians, under the leadership of Hannibal, made an expedition against Sicily, with an army of one hundred thousand men, and in the course of three months captured two Greek cities, Selinus and Himera.

So the year ended, being the year in which the Carthaginians made an expedition to Sicily with one hundred and twenty triremes and an army of one hundred and twenty thousand men, and although defeated in battle, starved Acragas into submission after besieging it for seven months.

It was at the same time also that Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, was defeated in battle by the Carthaginians and lost Gela and Camarina.

[Nonius, 431M] The Carthaginians first, by their trafficking and their wares, imported into Greece avarice and ostentation and the insatiable cravings of all things.

How many—as the Tauri in the Black Sea, as the king of Egypt Busiris, as the Gauls, as the Carthaginians—reckoned it both pious and most pleasing to the immortal gods to sacrifice men!

for it was not his greatness of soul that was tortured by the Carthaginians, nor his dignity, nor his good faith, nor his steadfastness, nor any virtue, nor, in short, his very soul, which, guarded by the protection of so many virtues and attended by so great a retinue, certainly could not itself be captured even when his body was taken.

Many Carthaginians have served as slaves at Rome, and Macedonians after King Perses was taken;

The Carthaginians first built a quadrireme, and Bosporus built it offhand.

For the Lacedaemonians never dreamed that they would be brought to their present straits, and perhaps even the Syracusans, once a democracy, who exacted tribute from the Carthaginians and ruled all their neighbors and beat at us at sea, little thought they would fall under the tyranny of a single clerk, if report be true.

Those most famous mariners were well acquainted with that sea, because Hanno, when Carthage was at the height of her power, sailing from Cadiz to the farthest confines of Arabia, and doubling the promontory now known as the Cape of Good Hope (the ancient name seems to have been Hyperion Ceras), described in a book the entire route he had taken, the appearance of the coasts, and the location of the …

There is also the case of the tyrant Dionysius, who, when he was besieged by the Carthaginians, seeing not a glimmer of hope for deliverance, but being hard pressed both by the war and by the disaffection of his citizens, was, for his part, on the point of sailing away, when one of his companions made bold to declare that “royalty is a glorious shroud.

Ashamed of what he had planned to do, and taking up the war afresh, he destroyed countless hosts of the Carthaginians, strengthened his authority over his subjects, acquired far greater dominion than he had possessed before, ruled with absolute power until his death, and left his son in possession of the same honors and powers as he himself had enjoyed.

and again, we know that while the Carthaginians and the Lacedaemonians, who are the best governed peoples of the world, are ruled by oligarchies at home, yet, when they take the field, they are ruled by kings.

For when the Lacedaemonians were in power, it was not easy for you to take upon yourself the responsibility for the affairs in our region, nor to oppose the Lacedaemonians and at the same time fight the Carthaginians.

I entreat you, son of Cronus, grant that the battle-shouts of the Carthaginians and Etruscans stay quietly at home, now that they have seen their arrogance bring lamentation to their ships off Cumae.

This will be the commonwealth of the Athenians, or of the Carthaginians, or of some other city, one that belongs not to all men but to a certain few.

Will the wise man, then, attach himself to the commonwealth of the Carthaginians, in which there is unceasing sedition, in which liberty is the enemy of every best man, in which there is the utmost contempt for justice and goodness, inhuman cruelty toward enemies, and hostility even toward their own people?