Possible Clues:

• Of or relating to ancient Carthage
• ___ War (Rome vs. Carthage)
• ___ Wars (conflicts of the second and third centuries B.C.)
• Old city's college guarded by man in uniform?
• In ancient language, play on words isn't comprehensible at first
• Phoenician dialect
• Relating to Carthage
• Word-play I construed originally in an ancient language
• The joke, I see, has to do with Carthage