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Little is known about the origins or history of the Barca family prior to the Punic Wars. According to the Dictionary of African Biography, it has been suggested that the Barca family originally came from Cyrene, i.e., modern-day Libya. [4] Lance Serge states that Hamilcar's family was part of the landed aristocracy of Carthage. [5]
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter L.
Latin language was lingua franca in Europe for a long time. Below is a list of Latin honorifics and their abbreviations found in various texts, not necessary Latin. [1]Certain honorifics may be prepended with the intensive prefix prae-, indicating very high degree, e.g., praepotens (very powerful), as well as used in superlative form, such as clarissimus, and even constructed by the ...
Divide and rule or divide and conquer (Latin: divide et impera) is a method for gaining and maintaining power in politics and sociology. Divide and rule or divide and conquer may also refer to: Arts and entertainment
In Mass Effect the Krogan word "korbal" is roughly translated to "Victory or Death". In the 1984 film The Last Starfighter, the phrase is chanted by the starfighters. In the Warcraft universe, "Lok'tar ogar!" (Victory or Death!) is the battlecry of the Horde. In Hearthstone, it is said by Garrosh in the beginning of games.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces the word "leadership" in English only as far back as 1821, when the term referred to the position or office of a designated leader. [25] The abstract notion of "leadership" as embodying the qualities and behaviors associated with leaders and influencers developed only later during the 19th and 20th centuries ...
Viriathus (also spelled Viriatus; known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish; died 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania (as the Romans called it) or western Iberia (as the Greeks called it), where the Roman province of Lusitania would be finally established after the conquest.
Invicta is a Latin word meaning invincible, undefeated, or unconquered. It has been used in mottoes like Roma invicta (Latin for "Unconquered Rome"), and it is the motto of the county of Kent , England .