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[5] For it was this city which had caused his father to be exiled and before its walls his grandfather Hamilcar had been out-generalled by Gelon and then met his end,1 and with him one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers had perished and no fewer than these had been taken captive.

1 Cp. Book 11.21 f.

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