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 Carthage of the North.Carthag’inem esse Delendam (censeo) 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Carthage’na.
 
Capital of New Grana’da, in South America, unsuccessfully attacked in 1747 by Admiral Vernon.   1
       
“Wasteful, forth
       
Walks the dire power of pestilent disease …
Such as, of late, at Carthagena quenched
The British fire. You, gallant Vernon, saw
The miserable scene; you, pitying, saw
To infant-weakness sunk the warrior’s arm.”
       
Thomson: Summer, 1034–43.
 


 Carthage of the North.Carthag’inem esse Delendam (censeo) 

 
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