Carthage

Moreover, I judge that Carthage must be annihilated.

Moreover, I am of the opinion that Carthage must be destroyed.

Carthage must be destroyed.

Carthage was built by Dido.

Scipio returned to Italy after he had destroyed Carthage.

After Carthage was destroyed, Scipio returned to Italy.

There was an ancient city; the Tyrian settlers held it: Carthage, standing afar opposite Italy and the mouths of the Tiber, rich in trade and very harsh in the study of war. Juno is said to have valued this one city more than all lands, even above Samos.

There stood a city, fronting far away / the mouths of Tiber and Italia's shore, / a Tyrian settlement of olden day, / rich in all wealth, and trained to war's rough lore, / Carthage the name, by Juno loved before / all places, even Samos.

So saying, the son of Maia down he sent, / to open Carthage and the Libyan state, / lest Dido, weetless of the Fates' intent, / should drive the Trojan wanderers from her gate.

"Hither, where now the walls and fortress high, / of Carthage, and her rising homes are found, / they came, and there full cheaply did they buy, / such space – called Byrsa from the deed – of ground / as one bull's-hide could compass and surround."

1594, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage