c/historymemes · by PugJesus@lemmy.world · 1yStubborn lot, the Romans 151 points · 10 comments · view on lemmy.world
10 Comments
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y
The Carthaginian's thought I was daft to build a Navy, but I built it all the same just to show 'em... It sank in a storm.
So I built a second one... That sank in a storm.
So I built a third one... That got lost, was militarily defeated, and then sank in a storm, but the fourth one was victorious!
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Strongest navy in Mare Nostrum!
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
Great... tracts of water
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
Supremacy through ungodly levels of stubbornness. Basically, quitting was simply not in their dictionary.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 19 pts · 1y
Lets be honest, the 3rd Punic war was waged on excuses flimsier than cheap toilet paper.
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Carthage ILLEGALLY defended themselves, it's a cut and dry case tbqh
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1y
Exactly. If Rome wasn't supposed to salt the earth at Carthage, then why was their earth so saltable?
lukewarm_tauntaun@feddit.org · 12 pts · 1y
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
shundi82@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
"Hannibal ante portas!"
deathmetal27@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
"I didn't hear no bell."