| The Iberians played a large role in the campaigns of the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal Barca, both as allies and opponents. |
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| Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian, has been noted to have felt a form of status anxiety and insecurity when put next to Alexander. |
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| One Carthaginian sea captain sank his ship rather than let his charts fall into Roman hands. |
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| Such then are the conditions of the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan and the Carthaginian polities which have all a just and high reputation. |
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| Ibiza was a Carthaginian colony and the ceramic figures from this period are magnificent. |
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| All 3 had some Berber blood which was likely intermixed with Roman, Phoenecian, Carthaginian, Macedonian, etc. |
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| The Romans were not particularly good sailors, and they found themselves outclassed by the Carthaginian navy. |
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| However, at no period did Carthaginian wine figure prominently in trade. |
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| So the Senate sent both consuls north to meet the Carthaginian. |
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| Dido, the Carthaginian queen, offered hospitality to the Trojans. |
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| By then the Romans had adopted the Carthaginian name, romanized first as Ispania. |
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| Tangier was founded in the early 5th century BC by Carthaginian colonists, who were probably the first ones to settle around the coast. |
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| After the final Carthaginian naval defeat at the Aegates Islands, the Carthaginians surrendered and accepted defeat in the First Punic War. |
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| Carthaginian accounts of monsters became one source of the myths discouraging sailing in the Atlantic. |
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| He left his brother, Hasdrubal in charge of the administration of Carthaginian Iberia, as well as its defence against the Romans. |
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| The river appears in the Ebro Treaty of 226 BC between Rome and Carthage, setting the limit of Carthaginian interest at the Ebro. |
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| Unable to defeat Hannibal on Italian soil, the Romans boldly sent an army to Africa under Scipio Africanus to threaten the Carthaginian capital. |
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| The Carthaginian sailor Himilco is said to have visited the island in the 5th century BC and the Greek explorer Pytheas in the 4th. |
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| While campaigning against Byzantium he ordered the covering of the tomb of his fellow Carthaginian Hannibal with fine marble. |
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| After the Carthaginian intercession, Messana asked Rome to expel the Carthaginians. |
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| Greek Syracuse controlled much of Sicily, though there were a few Carthaginian colonies in the far west of the island. |
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| During the Second Punic War the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca utilized Gallic mercenaries in his invasion of Italy. |
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| Records of the voyages of the Carthaginian Himilco take note of the islands of Albion and Ierne. |
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| The Senate took a number of measures in order to free up its hands for the coming conflict with the Carthaginian. |
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| Words were exchanged in the Carthaginian Senate to the effect that Hannibal should be handed over to the Romans and his actions disavowed. |
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| Awaiting the Carthaginian army on the left bank of the Rhone was a tribe of Gauls called the Cavares. |
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| The Carthaginian detachment chopped down trees, lashing the logs together with reliable ropes they had brought with them from the army's stores. |
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| The armies started to shout and jeer at each other while the Carthaginian army was in the midst of crossing. |
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| Seeing that the Carthaginians were finally crossing, the Cavares rose from their entrenchments and prepared their army on the shore near the Carthaginian landing point. |
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| However, after training more sailors and inventing a grappling engine, a Roman naval force was able to defeat a Carthaginian fleet, and further naval victories followed. |
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| The Numidians were followed back to the Carthaginian camp, which was almost assembled excepting the elephants, which required more time getting across. |
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| After this contest of arms, the baggage was held together in good order and the Carthaginian army followed the road down to the plain that begins roughly at modern Bourget. |
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| During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal probably crossed the Alps with an army numbering 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants. |
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| The defeat of Carthaginian forces by Scipio Africanus in Eastern Hispania allowed the pacification of the west, led by Consul Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus. |
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| In 206 BC, the new king of the eastern Massylii, Masinissa, allied himself with Rome, and Syphax of the Masaesyli switched his allegiance to the Carthaginian side. |
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| The Romans allowed themselves to be tied up in a war against the Illyrians, and did not treat the Carthaginian threat from Iberia with the attention that it deserved. |
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| At the same time, Greek Sicily was invaded by a Carthaginian force. |
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| These colonies expressed concern about the consolidation of Carthaginian power on the peninsula, which Hasdrubal's deft military leadership and diplomatic skill procured. |
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| This way Rome became the new dominant power against the fading strength of the Sicilian Greek cities and the Carthaginian supremacy in the region. |
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| Others believed that, to avoid the Carthaginian blockade, he may have stuck close to land and sailed only at night, or taken advantage of a temporary lapse in the blockade. |
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| The war began with the audacious invasion of Hispania by Hannibal, the Carthaginian general who had led operations on Sicily in the First Punic War. |
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| The coastline had been explored by the Greek geographer Pytheas in the 4th century BC, and may have been explored even earlier, in the 5th, by the Carthaginian sailor Himilco. |
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