So impressed!!
Mariah Meriam
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ZPG
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > At one crucial point in its history, Roma decided it had to eliminate
> > its rival, the city of Carthagena, located in modern Tunisia.
> Actually, it was "Carthago delenda est." Literally translated,
> "Carthage is to be destroyed." Made popular by the Roman Senator
> Cato in the second century AD, it was used as the reason in the Third
> Punic War to not just level Carthage, but to salt the earth around
> it, destroying the agricultural capability so that no civilization
> would again rise in that location, at least during the remaining 2
> centuries of the Roman empire.
>
> A good place to start looking for that kind of thing might be at
> http://ancienthistory.about.com . You could look at the Internet
> History Resource Guide at
> http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~kverbove/IAHRG/internet.html, and you might
> want to also look at the Electronic Library for Ancient Historians
> (yeah, I think the title's pretty funny!) at
> http://www.indiana.edu/~romnhist/Electronicsept.html
>
> I come by the knowledge a little more circuitously: five years of
> Latin studies, some of which was spent translating Cato's orations.
> As a less painful alternative, I recommend Gibbon's classic, The
> Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which is available online.
> (Check the Gutenberg project.)
>
