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Carthaginians

also: Poeni, the Carthaginians

The people of Carthage (Latin Poeni). Lucretius recalls the terror of their onset in the Punic Wars, when Rome's survival hung in doubt, to show how that dread is nothing to those not yet born.

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On the Nature of Things poetry · 2 mentions

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