11 Byrsae, i.e., later, the Citadel quarter, as if from βύρσα = a hide, prob. corrupted from Phoen. Bozra (= a fort). So Carthage = Kirjath (city); cp. Kirjath-Arba (Hebron), and Hannibal (= Hanniel) = the grace of Baal.
14 velut instar c. = as if the semblance of a state; cf. ‘instar montis equus,’ Verg.—Post.
17 bubulum = of an ox, adj. from bos.
22 auspicatam = auspicious, in active sense.
Parallel Passages. Verg. Aen. i. 336-368, 418-438, and Aen. iv. 21-22.
References. Bosworth Smith, Carthage and the Carthaginians.—Ihne, Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. pp. 3-21.
FIRST PUNIC WAR, 264-241 B.C.
Aeneas views the Building of Carthage, circ. 878 B.C.
Iamque ascendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi