United States or Kyrgyzstan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
It was through the medium of the Hellenes that the Cannanite race became known to the Romans, for, as we have already seen, they always designated it by its Greek name; but the fact that they did not borrow from the Greeks either the name for the city of Carthage or the national name of the -Afri-, and the circumstance that among the earlier Romans Tyrian wares were designated by the adjective -Sarranus-, which in like manner precludes the idea of Greek intervention, demonstrate what the treaties of a later period concur in proving the direct commercial intercourse anciently subsisting between Latium and Carthage.
It was through the medium of the Hellenes that the Cannanite race became known to the Romans, for, as we have already seen, they always designated it by its Greek name; but the fact that they did not borrow from the Greeks either the name for the city of Carthage or the national name of the -Afri-, and the circumstance that among the earlier Romans Tyrian wares were designated by the adjective -Sarranus-, which in like manner precludes the idea of Greek intervention, demonstrate what the treaties of a later period concur in proving the direct commercial intercourse anciently subsisting between Latium and Carthage.
Word Of The Day