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After Himilcon had exhibited his hatred for the Greeks by the calamity he visited upon the Messenians, he dispatched Magon his admiral with his naval armament under orders to sail to the peak known as Taurus.1 This area had been taken by Siceli in large numbers, who, however, had no leader.

1 This is not the Taurus mentioned just above which lay near Syracuse, but the site of the later Tauromenium.

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