. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate XXVI. A ^ESTAL 156. FIRST PUNIC WAR be neglected, and it led inevitably to a collision with thegreatest maritime power of the Mediterranean. Already theRomans had made some half-hearted attempts to create anavy, and the same line of policy is to be traced in the founda-tion of burgess-colonies in the seaport towns. But it would bea mistake to suppose that in declaring war on Carthage theRomans had any clear view of the tremendous issues at was a step in the dark, forced up
. Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar . Plate XXVI. A ^ESTAL 156. FIRST PUNIC WAR be neglected, and it led inevitably to a collision with thegreatest maritime power of the Mediterranean. Already theRomans had made some half-hearted attempts to create anavy, and the same line of policy is to be traced in the founda-tion of burgess-colonies in the seaport towns. But it would bea mistake to suppose that in declaring war on Carthage theRomans had any clear view of the tremendous issues at was a step in the dark, forced upon a reluctant Senate bythe blind enthusiasm of the people, and leading to consequenceswhich no one could foresee. Lords of the Sea The Carthaginians were heirs of a great tradition, and claimed,not without reason, the proud title of lords of the sea. Throughtheir mother-city. Tyre, they could boast of a hoary antiquity,connecting them with the most ancient civilizations of theBast, with Babylon, with Chaldaea, and with Egypt, comparedwith which Rome, Athens, and Sparta were but creations ofyesterday. While Greece was still peo
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