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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 11 | 11 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Operations in Sicily
As for Gaius Duilius, he no sooner heard of the
Victory of Duilius at Mylae, B. C. 260.
disaster which had befallen the commander of
the navy than handing over his legions to the
military Tribunes he transferred himself to the
fleet. There he learnt that the enemy was
plundering the territory of Mylae, and at once sailed to attack
him with the whole fleet. No sooner did the Carthaginians
sight him than with joy and alacrity they put to sea with a
hundred and thirty sail, feeling supreme contempt for the
Roman ignorance of seamanship. Accordingly they all sailed
with their prows directed straight at their enemy: they did not
think the engagement worth even the trouble of ranging their
ships in any order, but advanced as though to seize a booty
exposed for their acceptance. Their commander was that
same Hannibal who had withdrawn his forces from Agrigentum by a secret night movement, and he was on board a
galley with seven banks of oars which had once belonged to