Cartaina
Cartaina wæs scipstrang and hæfde micel rīce ofer Wendelsǣ. Cartainisce landbūnesse lǣgon in Ispanie and on Wendlesǣwes strandum, swā feorr swā Masilia. Ēac on hiere rīce wæron Corsica, Sardinia and Sicilia īege.
Þā Peniscan Gūða[adihtan | adihtan fruman]
Sēo Rōmanisce Cynewīse feaht mid Cartaine fram þǣm 264. gēare fore Crīste ōð þæt 146. fōre Crīste. In þǣm 202. fore Crīste æt Zama oferwann Scipio Africanus Hannibal þone heretogan and his fyrde. Cartaina belēas hiere landscipas and wearþ Rēmisc gafolgiefa.
Nōþȳlæs Rōm næfde lufe for Cartaine. In Rēmiscum Senatum cwæþ Caton:
Carthago delenda est
- þæt is "Adilegod sceal Cartaina bēon", oððe hē ofertēah ǣlcne cwide mid:
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
"Ēac, ic hycge ðe man sceal Cartaina adilegian."
Æfter fīftig gēara begann nīwe gūþ in þǣm 149. gēare fore Crīste. Rōmware besǣton þā burg fram þǣm 149. fore Crīste ōð þæt 146. fore Crīste, þā nam Scipio Aemilianus þā burg and eall adolegode Cartaine burg. Hiere land on Affrice wearð Underrīce Affrica.
Rōmisc Cartaina[adihtan | adihtan fruman]
Dido and Eneas[adihtan | adihtan fruman]
In ealdgesegene wæs ǣrest Cartaine cwēn Dido. Se Æneid telþ þe Windas drifon Eneas, Troia æþeling, tō Cartaine mid his scipum. Þǣr Dido begann tō lufienne hine forswīðe. Þā beglād hire Eneas þā lāð hē tō Italie, barn Dido cwēne selfe on āde and in hiere dēaþe swōr Cartainaþēode ēcelīc hāt wið Eneases folc, þæt wearþ Rōmware.