Stubborn lot, the Romans

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ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (2 replies)

Lets be honest, the 3rd Punic war was waged on excuses flimsier than cheap toilet paper.

PugJesus@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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."