* Carthage evacuates Sicily and small islands west of it ( Aegadian Islands ).

The Council of North African bishops, which included Augustine of Hippo, held at Carthage in 418 did not explicitly endorse all aspects of Augustine's stern view about the destiny of infants who die without baptism, but the Latin Fathers of the 5th and 6th centuries did adopt his position, and it became a point of reference for Latin theologians in the Middle Ages.

After his defection, Alcibiades claimed to the Spartans that the Athenians planned to use Sicily as a springboard for the conquest of all of Italy and Carthage, and to use the resources and soldiers from these new conquests to conquer the Peloponnese.

When Rome and Carthage made peace in 241 BC, Rome secured the release of all 8, 000 prisoners of war without ransom and, furthermore, received a considerable amount of silver as a war indemnity.

This new-found Punic militarism alarmed many Romans, including Cato the Elder who, after a voyage to Carthage, ended all his speeches, no matter what the topic, by saying: " Carthago delenda est " – " Carthage must be destroyed ".

As part of the treaty with Rome, Carthage agrees to abandon all its claims on Sicily, to refrain from sailing her warships in Italian waters and to pay an indemnity of 3, 200 talents.

Not long after his baptism he was ordained deacon, and soon afterward presbyter ; and some time between July 248 and April 249 he was chosen bishop of Carthage, a popular choice among the poor who remembered his patronage as demonstrating good equestrian style, while a portion of the presbytery opposed it, for all Cyprian's wealth and learning and diplomacy and literary talents.

In Carthage the followers of Felicissimus elected Fortunatus as bishop in opposition to Cyprian, while in Rome the followers of the Roman presbyter Novatian, who also refused absolution to all the lapsed, elected their man as bishop of Rome, in opposition to Cornelius.

The Romans pursued his men all the way to the gates of Carthage itself.

In the First Punic War it was at first dependent upon Carthage ; and though the citizens, alarmed at the progress of the Roman arms, were at one time on the point of revolting to Rome, they were restrained by the Carthaginians, who carried off all the chief citizens as hostages.

He favored his hometown above all other provincial cities, and the buildings and wealth he lavished on it made Leptis Magna the third-most important city in Africa, rivaling Carthage and Alexandria.

Cleitarchus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch all mention burning of children as an offering to Cronus or Saturn, that is to Ba ' al Hammon, the chief god of Carthage ( see Interpretatio graeca for clarification ).

The war was a much smaller engagement than the two previous Punic Wars and focused mainly on the Siege of Carthage, which resulted in the complete destruction of the city, the annexation of all remaining Carthaginian territory by Rome, and the death or enslavement of the entire Carthaginian population.

The peace treaty at the end of the Second Punic War required that all border disputes involving Carthage be arbitrated by the Roman Senate and required Carthage to get explicit Roman approval before going to war.

As a result, in the 50 intervening years between the Second and Third Punic War, Carthage had to take all border disputes with Rome's ally Numidia to the Roman Senate, where they were decided almost exclusively in Numidian favor.

The consuls then demanded that Carthage hand over all weapons and armour.

In the peace treaty between Carthage and Rome, Carthage surrenders all her Mediterranean possessions to Rome, including her Iberian territories.

From this time on, Cato keeps repeating the cry " Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam " (" Moreover, I advise that Carthage must be destroyed ") at the end of all his speeches, no matter what subject they concern.

* The peace treaty at the end of the Second Punic War requires that all border disputes involving Carthage be arbitrated by the Roman Senate and requires Carthage to get explicit Roman approval before going to war.

* By this stage in the Punic War, Carthage has lost to Rome all its Sicilian possessions except Lilybaeum ( now Marsala ) and Drepanum ( now Trapani ).

* Carthage makes another effort to conquer all of Sicily.

* Carthage transfers a group of small islands north of Sicily ( Aeolian Islands and Ustica ) to Rome.

After some hesitation, Carthage sent a small force, with the assistance of which the Segestans defeated the Selinuntines in a battle.

At Carthage, a large cemetery exists that combines the bodies of both very young children and small animals, and those who argue in favor of child sacrifice have argued that if the animals were sacrificed then so too were the children.

Carthage at this time was feeling the strain of the prolonged conflict ( In addition to maintaining a fleet and soldiers in Sicily they were also fighting the Libyans and Numidians in Africa ), and as a result Hamilcar was given a fairly small army and the Carthaginian fleet was gradually withdrawn so that by 242 BC Carthage had no ships to speak of in Sicily.

Gisco sensibly sent the troops to Carthage in small groups with intervals in between so the government could pay them off without trouble.

Carthage gained a small amount of attention when it was featured in the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.

From their principal center of power at Carthage, the Carthaginians expanded and established small settlements ( called emporia in Greek ) along the North African coast ; these settlements eventually served as market towns as well as anchorages.

Taking control of Messana allowed them to decrease Syracuse's power and since Carthage already controlled North Africa, parts of Spain, Sardinia, and some small islands in the Mediterranean, control of Messana could lead to the conquest of Sicily.

Since 264 BC, when they had declared war on Carthage, there had not been much serious fighting between the two except for a small fight in the straits of Messana.

Reeves was born in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage.

Initially a small Phoenician harbour, the city came under the influence of Carthage after the defeat of Agathocles during the Punic Wars.

Denver is a small unincorporated community located in rural Harmony Township in Hancock County in the U. S. state of Illinois, about eight miles south of Carthage and about 30 miles northeast of Quincy.

When Smith was in the Carthage Jail in 1844, after he fired his last round in a small pepper-box pistol ( which had been given to him that morning by Cyrus Wheelock ), he held up his arms and may have been giving the Masonic call of distress, hoping Masons in the contingent would honor this call and not fire on him.

In 1977 a huge blizzard struck the Tug Hill Plateau and dumped 97 inches in the small village of Carthage.

The terms of the Treaty of Lutatius designed by the Romans were particularly heavy for Carthage, which had lost bargaining power following its defeat at the Aegates islands.

As Carthage was under siege and engaged in a difficult civil war, they begrudgingly accepted the loss of these islands and the subsequent Roman conditions for ongoing peace, which also increased the war indemnity levied against Carthage after the first Punic War.

The islands later came under the control of Carthage ( 400 BC ) and then of the Roman Republic ( 218 BC ).

They called the islands " Gorgades " in remembering the home of the mythical Gorgons killed by Perseus and afterwards-in typically ancient euhemerism-interpreted ( against the written original statement ) as the site where the Carthaginian Hanno the Navigator slew two female " Gorillai " and brought their skins into the temple of the female deity Tanit ( the Carthaginian Juno ) in Carthage.

* Carthage would evacuate all islands between Italy and Sicily – probably the Aegates Islands in addition to the Aeolian Islands.

Rome, which had dealt with Carthage with all due honor and courtesy during the crisis, going as far as to release all Punic prisoners without ransom and refuse to accept offers from Utica and Rebels mercenaries based in Sardinia to incorporate these territories into the Roman domain, seized Sardinia and Corsica and forced Carthage to pay 1, 200 talents for her initial refusal to renounce her claim over the islands.

As part of the terms of the treaty, Rome demanded that Carthage give up " all islands lying between Sicily and Italy ", immediately pay Rome a sum of 1, 000 talents of gold, and pay a further 2, 000 talents over a period of 10 years.