place
Carthage
also: Carthago
The North African city and naval power, Rome's great rival, destroyed in 146 BC. Sallust dates the onset of Roman moral decline to the removal of this external check.
Reading notes
- The Conspiracy of Catiline §10 Carthage
Rome's great rival, destroyed in 146 BC. Sallust dates the onset of moral collapse to the disappearance of this external check ('metus hostilis').
- The Jugurthine War §18 next to Carthage
Carthage, the great Phoenician city and Rome's destroyed rival (razed 146 BC); the lands beside it took the name Numidia.