Thapsus

[ thap-suhs ]

noun

1. an ancient town on the coast of Tunisia: decisive victory of Caesar 46 b.c.

Thapsus

/ ˈθæpsəs /

noun

1. an ancient town near Carthage in North Africa: site of Caesar's victory over Pompey in 46 bc

Example Sentences

He gave them a great defeat at Thapsus, and the remnant took refuge in the city of Utica, whither Cæsar followed them.

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I sail past Pantagias' mouth with its living stone, the Megarian bay, and low-lying Thapsus.

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Thapsus was situated on a kind of peninsula, south of Hadrumetum, as Dion Cassius states.

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Cæsar occupied this approach to Thapsus, and then formed his lines about the town in the form of a crescent.

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Name a play upon Thapsia, so called from the island of Thapsus.

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