| 单词 | punic war |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPunic War Punic War n. [after classical Latin Pūnicum bellum] each of the three wars between the Romans and Carthaginians waged between 264 and 146 b.c. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > other specific war Punic War1556 Vandal war1613 American Civil War1775 Seven Years War1775 Revolutionary Wara1784 Peninsular war1811 Great War1815 Mormon war1833 opium war1841 the Thirty Years' War1841 the Thirty Years' War1842 Mexican War1846 Napoleonic War1850 Crimean War1854 Hundred Years War1874 Balkan war1881 Boer War1883 Winter War1939 Six Day War1967 Yom Kippur War1973 Gulf War1981 Falklands conflict1982 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 16v They must keepe their promes therin. As Regulus did, that was taken of the Carthaginers in the first Punik warres [L. primo Punico bello]. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 111 When Regulus was Gouernour or Generall in the Punick warres. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 457 The Romans being straitned in the First Punic War, lower'd their Brass Money Five parts in Six. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. vi. 162 The vast force both by sea and land, which was exerted in the Punic wars, was maintained at the expence of the Romans themselves. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals (1877) II. v. 302 Complete dissolution of Roman morals began shortly after the Punic wars. 1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 543/2 Massiliot seamen played an important part in the Second Punic War. 1989 Atlantic Aug. 44/1 The course of the Punic Wars and the campaigns of Frederick the Great had persuaded him..that in war ‘spirit’ counts for more than luck. < as lemmas |
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