Word: punic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fabian Society had really been founded 62 years ago, but, because of the war, it delayed the celebration. The postponement was in character; Fabius Cunctator (The Delayer) had worn out Hannibal in the Second Punic War* by what Livy called "masterly inactivity." The earnest young men & women of the 1880s who believed that socialism (not the Marxist brand) would come with what Webb called the "inevitability of gradualness" took Fabius as their exemplar. They considered violent revolution unnecessary, believed their Utopia could be achieved by "permeating" existing institutions...
...honor last week when, in a debate over whether the title "World War II" implied an inevitable World War III, Attlee told the House of Commons (most of whose members had known better since they were fifth formers): "As far as I know, there was a First and Second Punic War but not a third...
...Carthaginians, in the Roman view, were treacherous fellows. "Punica fides" ("Punic faith") became Latin for double-dealing...
...Here fabled Dido was consumed in flames. Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...
...clock in the large lecture room of the Semitic Museum, will be: February 14, "The Secret of the Pyramids," by Professor Georg Steindorff, formerly of the University of Lolpzig; March 13, "Recent Excavations in Syria," by Harald Ingholt, of the University of Aarhus, Denmark; and March 21, "Phoenician and Punic Remains in Sardinia," by Professor Doro Levi, formerly of the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, at present Recorder for the Princeton Excavations at Antioch...