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Mathos Harasses Hamilcar
Meanwhile Mathōs himself was continuing the siege
of Hippo Zarytus, and he now counselled Autaritus, the
leader of the Gauls, and Spendius to stick close
to the skirts of the enemy, avoiding the plains,
because the enemy were strong in cavalry
and elephants, but marching parallel with them on the slopes
of the mountains, and attacking them whenever they saw them
in any difficulty. Mathōs harasses Hamilcar's march. While suggesting these tactics, he at the
same time sent messengers to the Numidians and Libyans,
entreating them to come to their aid, and not to let slip the
opportunity of securing their own freedom. Accordingly,
Spendius took with him a force of six thousand men, selected
from each of the several nationalities at Tunes, and started,
keeping along a line of hills parallel to the Carthaginians.
Besides these six thousand he had two thousand Gauls under
Autaritus, who were all that were left of the original number,
the rest having deserted to the
Revolt of Hippo Zarytus and Utica
Alarmed by the recklessness displayed by the enemy,
Quarrels of Hanno and Hamilcar.
Hamilcar summoned Hanno to join him, being convinced that
a consolidation of the two armies would give him the best
chance of putting an end to the whole war. Such of the
enemy as he took in the field he put to exe lace to which they give the
name of Emporiae: but as these supplies were on their way,
they were overtaken by a storm at sea and entirely destroyed.
Revolt of Hippo Zarytus and Utica. This was all the more fatal because Sardinia was lost to them
at the time, as we have seen, and that island had always been
of the greatest service to them in difficulties of this sort. But
the worst blow of all was the revolt of the
cities of Hippo Zarytus and Utica, the only
cities in all Libya that had been faithful to
them, not only in the present war, but also at the time of the
invasion of Agathocles, as well as that of the Romans. To
both these latter they had offered a