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Pūnĭcus
adjective I class

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1 Punic, Carthaginian
2 (poetic) purple, red

Locutions, idioms and examples

(arbos) Punica || punica fides || bellis Punicis || arte Punica || ars Punica || bello Punico secundo || castra Punica ac Romana interiacebat campus || circumacto tertio anno Punici belli || brevi extorre hinc omne Punicum nomen … || ante bellum Punicum abhinc annos trecentos || ad dissimulandum … vulnerum suorum cruorem Punicis in proelio tunicis utebantur = they used red tunics during battles to hide the blood from one's own wounds || classis Punica litori, quod inter urbem et castra Romana erat, adpulsa est || aram condidit dedicavitque cum ingenti titulo Punicis Graecisque litteris insculpto || a Punicis bellis incipiam : quot classes, quot duces, quot exercitus priore bello amissi sunt? = I will start from the punic wars: who many lost fleets, generals, armies at first! || asseres ferreo unco praefixi — harpagones vocat miles — ex Punicis navibus inici in Romanas coepti || ad haec peditum auxilia additi equites Libyphoenices, mixtum Punicum Afris genus quadringenti quinquaginta = to these infantry reinforcements (were) added 450 knights, of mixed Phoenician and African race