Punica, Volume I Middle East Two rival schools stand next

Two rival schools stand next door to each other- one for elite ladies

And that tendency for them to drive us up the wall

At their heart sits Carmel- beautiful

sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son

' Smith writes

Punica, Volume I Middle East Two rival schools stand nextSilius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218202 BCE), is based for facts largely on