Punic Wars Quotes

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

Aside from the Punic Wars, which I was too young for, I have been blamed for everything.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.