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Hamilcar Barcas' Seven Years in Hercte
Next year, the eighteenth of the war, the Carthaginians
B. C. 247.
appointed Hamilcar Barcas general, and put the
management of the fleet in his hands. Occupation of Hercte by Hamilcar. He
took over the command, and started to ravage the Italian
coast. After devastating the districts of Locri, and the rest
of Bruttium, he sailed away with his whole fleet
to the coast of Panormus and seized on a place
called Hercte, which lies between Eryx and
Panormus on the coast, and is reputed the best situation in
the district for a safe and permanent camp. For it is a
mountain rising sheer on every side, standing out above the
surrounding country to a considerable height. The table-land
on its summit has a circumference of not less than a hundred
stades, within which the soil is rich in pasture and suitable for
agriculture; the sea-breezes render it healthy; and it is entirely
free from all dangerous animals. On the side which looks towards the sea, as well
Hannibal's Greed
Fond of money indeed he does seem to have
His avarice.
been to a conspicuous degree, and to have
had a friend of the same character—Mago,
who commanded in Bruttium. That account I got from
the Carthaginians themselves; for natives know best not
only which way the wind lies, as the proverb has it, but
the characters also of their fellow-countrymen. But I
heard a still more detailed story from Massanissa, who
maintained the charge of money-loving against all Carthaginians generally, but especially against Hannibal and Mago
called the Samnite. Among other stories, he told me that
these two men had arranged a most generous subdivision of
operations between each other from their earliest youth; and
though they had each taken a very large number of cities in
Iberia and Italy by force or fraud, they had never taken part in
the same operation together; but had always schemed against
each other, more than against the enemy, in order to prevent
the one being with the other at t