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Siege of Lilybaeum
The announcement of this success at Rome was received with extreme delight; not so much at the blow inflicted
on the enemy by the loss of their elephants, as at the confidence
inspired in their own troops by a victory over these animals. With
their confidence thus restored, the Roman government recurred
to their original plan of sending out the Consuls upon this service
with a fleet and naval forces; for they were eager, by all means
in their power, to put a period to the wa e fourteenth year of the war, the supplies necessary for
the despatch of the expedition were got ready, and the Consuls set sail for Sicily with two hundred ships. B. C. 250. C. Caecilius Regulus II., L. Manlius Vulso II.
They dropped anchor at Lilybaeum; and the
army having met them there, they began to
besiege it by sea and land. Their view was
that if they could obtain possession of this
town they would have no difficulty in transferring the seat
of war to Libya. The Carthaginian leaders wer
The Topography of Lilybaeum
Sicily, then, lies towards Southern Italy very much in
the same relative position as the Peloponnese does to the rest
of Greece. The only difference is that the one is an island,
the other a peninsula; and consequently in the former case
there is no communication except by sea, in the latter there is
a es which cover Carthage, at a
distance of about a thousand stades: it looks somewhat south
of due west, dividing the Libyan from the Sardinian Sea, and
is called Lilybaeum. On this last there is a city of the same
name. It was this city that the Romans were now besieging.
It was exceedingly strongly fortified: for besides its walls cted by lagoons, to steer through which into
the harbour was a task requiring much skill and practice.
The Romans made two camps, one on each side of theSiege of Lilybaeum, B. C. 250.
town, and connected them with a ditch,
stockade, and wall. Having done this, they
began the assault by advancing their siege-works
in the direction o
Treason in Lilybaeum
But about this time some of the officers of highest
Attempted treason in Lilybaeum.
rank in the mercenary army discussed among
themselves a project for surrendering the town
to the Romans, being fully persuaded that the
men under their command would obey their orders. They
got out of the city at night, went to the enemy's camp, and
held a parley with the Roman commander on the subject.
But Alexon the Achaean, who on a former occasion had saved
Agrigentum from destruction wLilybaeum.
rank in the mercenary army discussed among
themselves a project for surrendering the town
to the Romans, being fully persuaded that the
men under their command would obey their orders. They
got out of the city at night, went to the enemy's camp, and
held a parley with the Roman commander on the subject.
But Alexon the Achaean, who on a former occasion had saved
Agrigentum from destruction when the mercenary troops of
Syracuse made a plot to betray it, was on this occasion
once more the first to detect this treason, and to report it to the
general of the Carthaginians. The latter no sooner heard it
than he at once summoned a meeting of those officers who
were still in their quarters; and exhorted them to loyalty with
prayers and promises of liberal bounties and favours, if they
would only remain faithful to him, and not join in the treason
of the officers who had left the town. T
A Fruitless Sortie
Meanwhile the Carthaginians at home knew nothing of
Hannibal relieves Lilybaeum.
what was going on. But they could calculate
the requirements of a besieged garrison; and
they accordingly filled fifty vessels with soldiers,
furnished their commander Hannibal, a son of Hamilcar, and
an officer and prime favourite venturesome to relieve the besieged. He put to sea with his ten
thousand men, and dropped anchor at the islands called
Aegusae, which lie in the course between Lilybaeum and
Carthage, and there looked out for an opportunity of making
Lilybaeum. At last a strong breeze sprang up in exactly the
right quarter: he crowded all sail anLilybaeum. At last a strong breeze sprang up in exactly the
right quarter: he crowded all sail and bore down before the
wind right upon the entrance of the harbour, with his men
upon the decks fully armed and ready for battle. Partly from
astonishment at this sudden appearance, partly from dread of
being carried along with the enemy by the violence of the
gale into the harbour of their opponents, the Romans did not
venture to
Running the Blockade
Himilco, the general in command at Lilybaeum, now
A sally from Lilybaeum.
saw that both divisions of his troops were in
high spirits and eager for service,—the original
garrison owing to the presence of the reinforcement, the newly arrived because they had as yet had no experience of the hardships of the situation. He wished to take
advantage of the excited feelings of both parties, before they
cooled, in order to organise an attempt to set fire to the works of
the besiegeLilybaeum.
saw that both divisions of his troops were in
high spirits and eager for service,—the original
garrison owing to the presence of the reinforcement, the newly arrived because they had as yet had no experience of the hardships of the situation. He wished to take
advantage of the excited feelings of both parties, before they
cooled, in order to organise an attempt to set fire to the works of
the besiegers. He therefore summoned the whole army to a
meeting, and dwelt upon the themes suitable to the occasion
at somewhat greater length than usual. He raised their zeal
to an enthusiastic height by the magnitude of his promises for
individual acts of courage, and by declaring the favours and
rewards which awaited them as an army at the hands of the
Carthaginians. His speech was received with lively marks of
satisfaction; and the men with loud shouts bade him delay no
more, but lead them into the