Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 303
t hundred years before,by those old mighty mariners, the Phenicians).So overbearing had these Carthaginians become,through their long supremacy on the water,that they had forbidden the Romans even towash their hands in the Mediterranean Sea!One of the secrets of this tyranny, also, was thefact that… … A ROMAN MAN-O -WAR. fleets. The Roman people, however, awoke atlast to a sense of their own inferiority in thisregard, and from one of their enemys ships,stranded on their coast, they got the design fortheir first ship. Dockyards were enlarged, forests
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