| Carthage was a city-state on the Greek model that had been founded by Phoenicians from Tyre in the 8th century. |
| In antiquity Gibraltar belonged in turn to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths. |
| The Egyptians, Phoenicians and Hittites practised it as a special ritual in conjunction with the presentation of the dowry. |
| To the Phoenicians He was Adoni, to the Anatolians He was Attis, to the Sumerians Damuzi. |
| First the Mycenaeans grabbed it, then the Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians and Persians owned it. |
| The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly. |
