It appears to have early become a considerable town, though it continued, with few and brief exceptions, to be subject to the Carthaginian rule.

After destroying the city, he marched on Italy, beginning with a force of approximately 102, 000 men and a few dozen war elephants when he crossed the Ebro river in Spain, the previous border between Roman and Carthaginian interests.

Upon achieving decisive victory over the Carthaginian fleet, Catulus renewed the siege and captured Lilybaeum, isolating Barca and his army in Sicily, scattered among the few strongholds that Carthage still retained.

Around 500 BC, the Carthaginian writer Mago recorded these practices in a 28 volume work that was one of the few artifacts to survive the Roman destruction of Carthage during the Third Punic War.

Columella used many sources no longer extant, to which he is one of the few references ; these include Aulus Cornelius Celsus, the Carthaginian writer Mago, Tremellius Scrofa, and many Greek sources.

A few years after this the prosperity of the city was brought to a sudden and abrupt termination by the great Carthaginian expedition to Sicily.

It appears to have early become a considerable town, though it continued, with few and brief exceptions, to be subject to the Carthaginian rule.

The next few years were spent fighting off Mago and the Carthaginian fleet, with the Carthaginians finally withdrawing in 206 BC.

Like most Carthaginian armies, Hasdrubal's was a mix of many different cultures and ethnicities, including Iberians, Ligures, Gauls and few were of African origins.

Hasdrubal's best troops were Iberians, armed with shields and swords, made his right flank, along with the few African troops that he did have ( not much is known about these troops — they may have been spearmen drawn from some Carthaginian territory, or from another part of Africa ).

Meanwhile the Romans, though avoiding any decisive engagement, were continually gaining ground on him by the successive reduction of towns and fortresses, so that very few of these remained in the hands of the Carthaginian general when he was finally recalled from Italy.

Meanwhile, in the centre the elephant attack had been withstood, but only a few isolated units of Roman infantry managed to get past them to attempt to attack the Carthaginian phalanx, and those were quickly defeated.

A few years later ( 409 BCE ) when the Carthaginian army under Hannibal Mago landed at the promontory of Lilybaeum, that general laid up his fleet for security in the gulf around Motya, while he advanced with his land forces along the coast to attack Selinus.

There are a few texts from the Cathars themselves which were preserved by their opponents ( the Rituel Cathare de Lyon ) which give a glimpse of the inner workings of their faith, but these still leave many questions unanswered.

In addition to the more numerous translations of Arabic texts in this period, there were a few translations of Galenic works directly from the Greek, such as Burgundio of Pisa's translation of De complexionibus.

In the Sunni tradition, the number of such texts is ten thousand plus or minus a few thousand.

The Midrash is one of the few ancient religious texts that makes reference to same-sex marriage.

Sources for an understanding of dance in Europe in the Middle Ages are limited and fragmentary, being composed of some interesting depictions in paintings and illuminations, a few musical examples of what may be dances, and scattered allusions in literary texts.

A few biblical texts, such as the Ark Narrative and stories reflecting the importance of Gath, seem to portray Late Iron I and Early Iron II memories.

Some scholars suppose that these contain early Christian creeds and creedal hymns, which were included in several of the New Testament texts and that some of these creeds date to within a few years of Jesus ' death and were developed within the Christian community in Jerusalem.

Paine's text is still published today, one of the few eighteenth-century religious texts to be widely available.

Although few scholars still accept these texts as reliable sources, historians nowadays rely more on archeology and numismatics, disciplines that have made valuable contributions toward understanding the period.

Only in very few of these cases is it possible to demonstrate direct links to Ockham or his texts.

By Salutati's time, a few Latin texts of Aristotle had arrived in Europe via Muslim Spain and Sicily.

# A reproduction of a few genuine texts.

This selection presents texts from the Bible, Charles Dickens, Thomas Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, and James Thurber to name just a few.

There are only a few texts from the period on vocal production, but they all condemn excessive use of vibrato.

Unitarian theologian Charles Francis Potter stated about the NWT: " Apart from a few semantic peculiarities like translating the Greek word stauros, as " stake " instead of " cross ", and the often startling use of the colloquial and the vernacular, the anonymous translators have certainly rendered the best manuscript texts, both Greek and Hebrew, with scholarly ability and acumen.

A few days later, Kelley started receiving what became the first corpus of texts in the purported Angelic language.

The sacred texts recording the revelations of Tages ( and a few other prophets, mainly a female figure known as Vegoia ) were called by the Romans the Etrusca Disciplina at least as early as the late republic.

Besides papyrus, stone, ceramic shards, and wood, there are hieratic texts on leather rolls, though few have survived.

It has few words that expose the compiler behaviour and therefore naturally offers genericity capacities which, however, are not referred to as such in most Forth texts.

Beyond that, instead of the few females who commit suicide in these Petersburg texts being propelled to such lengths by a love so powerful and inescapable that it consumed them, financial hardships and moral degradation which they faced in the Imperial Capital contaminated or destroyed their femininity ; related to this, prostitution became markedly more prominent in popular literature in the 19th century.

Though early definitions cited LGATs as featuring unusually long durations, more recent texts describe the trainings as lasting from a few hours to a few days.

During the 1930s, Finzi composed only a few works, but it was in these works, notably the cantata Dies natalis ( 1939 ) to texts by Traherne, that his fully mature style developed.

While there can be no doubt that in the mid-13th century at the court of Batu the Mongolian language was in general use, few Mongol texts written in the territory of the Golden Horde have survived, perhaps because of the prevalent general illiteracy.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

He studied the problem for a few seconds and thought of a means by which it might be solved.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

We followed the asphalt road for a few miles and then swung off onto a smaller road which was nothing more than two tire marks on the earth.

There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.

In secret he also acted as a member of the prisoners' Central Committee, which plotted sabotage, planned a few escapes, and maintained a hidden control over the wretched French slave-laborers.

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

In one of the very few letters in which he ever complained of Meynell, Thompson told Patmore of his distress at having had to leave London before this new friendship had developed further: ``

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

There are few things of which I am prouder than of that unblemished record.

In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious.

Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

He whirled around, suddenly hot all over, finding the man who had been standing before him a few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed.

But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.