Please note that Mommsen uses the AUC chronology (Ab Urbe
Condita), i.e. from the founding of the City of Rome. You can
use this reference table to have the B.C. dates From: The
History of Rome, by Theodor Mommsen Translated with the sanction
of the author by William Purdie Dickson Capital and Its Power in
Carthage From a financial point of view, Carthage held in every
respect the first place among the states of antiquity. At the
time of the Peloponnesian war this Phoenician city was,
according to the testimony of the first of Greek historians,
financially superior to all the Greek states, and its revenues
were compared to those of the great-king; Polybius calls it the
wealthiest city in the world. The intelligent character of the
Carthaginian husbandry--which, as was the case subsequently in
Rome, generals and statesmen did not disdain scientifically to
practise and to teach--is attested by the agronomic treatise of
the Carthaginian Mago, which was universally regarded by the
later Greek and Roman farmers as