On mimio

I read an interesting book on the flight over here, which apparently nobody else has heard of, even though it's by Gustave Flaubert, the author of the acclaimed novel Madame Bovary, which is considered one of the greatest novels ever written. Salambo is about hard time in an ancient empire called Carthage. If there was a date of the period, I failed to see it. Of course, nothing in the book is about mimio, because that came a lot later, in modern times, not ancient times. Carthage was apparently an enemy of Rome, but the time of the novel appears to be BC, because there's no mention of Christianity.