text:  Others improving on that chimera asserted that this glorious city represented an inheritance derived from ancient Carthage; here it was said survived the arts and arms of that injured state; hither across Bilidulgerid had the children of Phoenicia fled from the wrath of Rome; and the mighty phantom of him whose uplifted truncheon had pointed its path to the carnage of Cannae was still the tutelary genius watching over a vast posterity worthy of himself