Thapsus

American  

[thap-suhs] / ˈθæp səs /

noun

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

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Thapsus British  

/ ˈθæpsəs /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

He laid heavy impositions on the towns of Thapsus and Hadrumetum.

From Plutarch's Lives Volume III. by Stewart, Aubrey

The battle of Thapsus in 46 made the Romans definitely masters of Numidia, and the spheres of administration were clearly marked out.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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)

Even after Thapsus at the intercession of his friends he pardoned bitter foes like Marcus Marcellus, one of the consuls of 50 B. C.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Pharsalia, Thapsus, and Munda could do no more for me.

From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry