Himilco
8. An officer in the army of Hannibal, who reduced the town of Petelia in Bruttium (B. C. 216), after a siege of several months' duration, during which the inhabitants had suffered the greatest extremities of famine. (
Liv. 23.20,
30.)
This conquest is ascribed by Appian (
Annib. 29) to Hanno, who, in fact, held the chief command in Bruttium at this time.