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Her navy had been sunk. She had been forbidden to make war without Roman permission.
迦太基的全部軍艦被沉入海底，從此失去了海軍；不經羅馬人的許可它沒有發動戰爭的權力；
She had been condemned to pay the Romans millions of dollars for endless less years to come.
它還被罰向羅馬支付數額驚人的戰爭賠款，
Life offered no hope of a better future.
在未來看不到盡頭的歲月來一年年償還。
In the year 190 B.C. Hannibal took poison and killed himself.
既然生命失去了希望，公元前190年，漢尼拔服毒自殺了。
Forty years later, the Romans forced their last war upon Carthage.
40年后，羅馬人卷土重來，向迦太基發動了最后的一戰。
Three long years the inhabitants of the old Phoenician colony held out against the power of the new republic.
在漫長而艱苦的3年里，這塊古代腓尼基殖民地的人民頑強地抵抗著新興的共和國。
Hunger forced them to surrender. The few men and women who had survived the siege were sold as slaves.
最終，饑餓迫使他們投降。圍困中幸存下來的少量男人和婦女被勝利者賣作奴隸，
The city was set on fire. For two whole weeks the store-houses and the palaces and the great arsenal burned.
整個城市被付之一炬。倉庫、宮殿、兵工廠籠罩在沖天的火焰中，大火整整持續了兩個星期。
Then a terrible curse was pronounced upon the blackened ruins and the Roman legions returned to Italy to enjoy their victory.
在對烏黑的殘垣斷壁施以最惡毒的詛咒后，羅馬軍隊班師回朝，去享受他們盛大的慶典去了。
For the next thousand years, the Mediterranean remained a European sea.
隨著迦太基的覆滅，地中海在隨后的1000年中變成了歐洲的內海。
But as soon as the Roman Empire had been destroyed, Asia made another attempt to dominate this great inland sea, as you will learn when I tell you about Mohammed.
可一當羅馬帝國壽終正寢，亞洲便展開了一次試圖控制這個內陸海洋的嘗試。具體的情形，我在談到穆罕默德的故事時告訴你。
