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Polybius, Histories, book 2, Recapitulation of Book 1 (search)
o. Following these events I endeavoured to describe how the mutiny of the mercenaries against Carthage, in what is called the Libyan War, burst out; the lengths to which the shocking outrages in it went; its surprises and extraordinary incidents, until its conclusion, and the final triumph of Carthage. I must now relate the events which immediately succeeded these, touching summarily upon each in accordance with my original plan. As soon as they had brought the Libyan war to a conclusionB. C. 238. Hamilcar and his son Hannibal sent to Spain. the Carthaginian government collected an army and despatched it under the command of Hamilcar to Iberia. This general took over the command of the troops, and with his son Hannibal, then nine years old, crossing by the Pillars of Hercules, set about recovering the Carthaginian possessions in Iberia. B. C. 238-229. He spent nine years in Iberia, and after reducing many Iberian tribes by war or diplomacy to obedience to Carthage he died in a manner
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller), Hamilcar Barca (search)
Hamilcar Barca famous commander of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily (247-241); in Spain (238-229); father of Hannibal, 3.99.