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[4] and Hannibal disembarked his troops and pitched a camp, beginning at the well which in those times had the name Lilybaeum, and many years after these events, when a city was founded near it,1 the presence of the well occasioned the giving of the name to the city.2

1 In 396 B.C.

2 The city of Lilybaeum.

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