Definitions for Thapsus

Thapsus Thap·sus

Spelling: [thap-suh s]
IPA: /ˈθæp səs/

Thapsus is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Thapsus (ahpsstu).

Definitions for Thapsus

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  1. an ancient town on the coast of Tunisia: decisive victory of Caesar 46 b.c.

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Thapsus, a maritime town in Africa, where Cæsar defeated the remains of Pompey's army.

Name a play upon Thapsia, so called from the island of Thapsus.

He laid heavy impositions on the towns of Thapsus and Hadrumetum.

Thus Labinus and Pompey's two sons managed to collect an army as numerous as that which had been defeated at Thapsus.

The struggle, however, was not over till after the battle of Thapsus nearly two years after Phansalus.

There, at the battle of Thapsus, he crushed out the last spark of opposition.

He gave them a great defeat at Thapsus, and the remnant took refuge in the city of Utica, whither Cæsar followed them.

Cæsar occupied this approach to Thapsus, and then formed his lines about the town in the form of a crescent.

Thapsus was situated on a kind of peninsula, south of Hadrumetum, as Dion Cassius states.

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