The city became the seat of the Carthaginian Empire and flourished until the Punic Wars with Rome.

这座城市成为迦太基帝国的所在地，在与罗马的布匿战争之前一直很繁荣。

There was also the cult of Cybele that arrived in Rome during the Punic Wars.

还有在布匿战争期间到达罗马的西布莉教。

Spain's mineral resources made Carthage even wealthier than it had been prior to the first Punic War.

事实上，西班牙的矿产资源使迦太基更加富裕比第一次布匿战争之前更富裕。

Rome won, which made Carthage cranky, so they started the second Punic war.

罗马赢了，这让迦太基暴躁，于是他们开始了第二次布匿战争。

But the experience of the Second Punic War proved to the Romans that a workable plan was desperately needed.

但第二次布匿战争的经历向罗马证明了他们非常需要一个可行的计划。

In the First Punic War, Rome wanted Sicily, which was controlled by the Carthaginians.

在第一次布匿战争中，罗马想要 由迦太基人控制的西西里岛。

The catalyst for the Second Punic War lay in  Hannibal's attack on Rome's ally, Saguntum.

第二次布匿战争的催化剂在于汉尼拔对罗马盟友萨贡图的进攻。

Both sides in the first Punic war knew that it was all but inevitable that there would be a second go-around.

第一次布匿战争的双方都知道不可避免的是还会有第二次战争爆发。

Not so the destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War, which lasted from one forty nine to one forty six BC.

第三次布匿战争中被摧毁的迦太基却非如此，第三次战争从公元前149年延续到146年。

The Romans knew that Carthage would eventually attack Saguntum and that they would have to defend Saguntum, and that a second Punic War would result.

罗马人知道迦太基最后会攻打萨贡托也相信他们会打败萨贡托，那也就是第二次布匿战争的结果。

During the Second Punic War, when Syracuse decided to switch its allegiance from Rome to Carthage, Archimedes built numerous devices to defend his city.

在第二次布匿战争期间，当锡拉丘兹决定从罗马转而效忠迦太基时，阿基米德建造了许多设施来保卫他的城市。

Given the nastiness of the Second Punic War, it's hard to blame them. But the mos maiorum, the final decision belonged to the victorious general.

考虑到肮脏的第二布匿战争，很难责备他们，但是根据法令，那终决定权握在获胜将军的手中。

Rome did not enter either of the Punic Wars in order to become the most important power the Mediterranean. As far as the Romans could tell, the Punic wars just happened.

罗马参与到布匿战争中不是为了成为地中海强权罗马人还能记得，布匿战争就这样发生了。

The Asian cult of the Magna mater imported towards the end of the second Punic war in 205 BC included the self-castrated eunuch priests of their self-castrated god Attis. Ouch.

公元前205年签署腓尼基和约后，罗马引进了众神之母的信仰包括自我阉割的神阿提斯。

This met the dictates 'of the Ius Fetiales, that is to say it meant that the Carthaginians started it and it touched off what we call the first Punic War.

这就符合了和平条约的内容，也就是说是迦太基人开启了战争这也就触发了第一次布匿战役。

The Carthaginian war party, led by Hamilcar and his young son Hannibal, made no secret of their determination to get even with Rome for the first Punic War.

迦太基战争是由哈米尔卡领导的还有他的小儿子汉尼拔，他们并没有隐瞒自己的决定想在第一次布匿战争中与罗马打成平手。

At the end of the three Punic Wars, Carthage was eventually sacked and destroyed by the Roman general Scipio Aemilianus, and Rome was elevated to Carthage's position as the greatest Mediterranean Empire.

在三次布匿战争结束时，迦太基最终被罗马将军斯比奥·阿米尼林斯洗劫并摧毁，罗马就替代了迦太基作为最伟大的地中海帝国的地位。

After the Roman defeat of Carthage (located in modern day Tunisia) in 146 BCE, patronymic names were adopted that blended Roman naming customs and the Punic names favored by Carthaginians to create a new tradition.

在罗马人于公元前146年击败迦太基(位于现在的突尼斯)之后，沿用了罗马命名习惯和迦太基人喜欢的布匿名字，从而创造了一个新的传统。

Rome pressed Syracuse for an alliance and  turned their collective might on Carthage, starting up the first in a series of three  conflicts now known as the Punic Wars.

罗马向叙拉古施压， 要求结盟，并将他们的集体力量转向迦太基，开始了现在被称为布匿战争的一系列三场冲突中的第一次。

You can see we here have a long line of rooms going through, but they're actually not straight, they're a bit curved, because we're here on top of the Punic Roman city wall.

你可以看到我们这里有一排长长的房间穿过，但它们实际上不是直的， 它们有点弯曲，因为我们在这里是在布匿罗马城墙的顶部。