alalia वाक्य

उदाहरण वाक्य

1. In Corsica they were so troublesome to the Etruscans and to the Carthaginians of Sardinia that the two powers sent a combined fleet of 120 ships to root them out, but this force was defeated by 60 Phocaean ships at the Battle of Alalia in the Sardinian Sea, which Herodotus describes as a Cadmeian victory ( his equivalent of a Pyrrhic victory ) because the Greeks lost 40 ships sunk and the remaining 20 so damaged as not to be battle-worthy.