Thapsus
Americannoun
noun
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Starting early next day, they proceeded along the coast, and, crossing the bay of Thapsus, came in sight, for the first time, of their great enemy, Syracuse.
From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)
He slew himself after the battle of Thapsus, in which his forces and those of Scipio were entirely defeated.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles
The actual optical perception had thus been subliminally transformed; the words Verbascum Thapsus were the report to the inattentive supraliminal self by a subliminal self more interested in botany than in dinner.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
But he was supported by King Bogud of Mauretania and a Catalinarian soldier of fortune, Publius Sittius, and after receiving reinforcements from Italy he besieged the seaport Thapsus.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
His rocky mouth we pass, and make our way By Thapsus and Megara's winding bay.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
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