Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 24
Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University, Ed.

36. The precaution which had been taken against Carthaginians served him, as it happened, against Sicilians. Coming upon them after they had broken ranks and were scattered in the act of pitching camp and mostly unarmed, he overwhelmed all the infantry. The cavalry, after a slight engagement, fled with Hippocrates to Acrae.

[p. 291] Marcellus, by that battle having restrained the¹ Sicilians inclined to revolt from the Romans, returned to Syracuse. [2] And a few days later Himilco was joined by Hippocrates and pitched camp by the river Anapus,² about eight miles away. [3] About the same time it so happened that fifty-five warships of the Carthaginians under Bomilcar sailed from the open sea into the Great Harbour of Syracuse, and also a Roman fleet of thirty quinqueremes debarked the first legion at Panormus.³ And the war could be considered as now diverted from Italy, so intent were both nations upon Sicily. [4] Himilco, thinking that the legion which had been landed at Panormus would certainly fall a prey to him on its way to Syracuse, was baffled by its route. [5] For the Carthaginian led his troops along an inland road, while the legion, escorted by the fleet, made its way along the coast to Appius [6??] Claudius, who with a part of his forces had advanced as far as Pachynum⁴ to meet it. And so the Carthaginians did not tarry longer near Syracuse. [7] On the one hand Bomilcar, lacking confidence in his own ships, since the Romans had a fleet of fully double the number, and at the same time seeing that by useless delay the lack of supplies for the allies was only intensified by his forces, put out to sea and crossed over to Africa. [8] On the other hand Himilco first followed Marcellus to Syracuse to no purpose, in the hope that there might be some opportunity for an engagement before should unite with larger forces. Then, when no such opportunity fell to him, and he [p. 293]saw the enemy safe near Syracuse thanks to his⁵ fortifications and military strength, fearing to waste time in besieging him in vain and watching the blockade of the allies, he moved his camp away. [9] His purpose was to bring up his army to any point to which the hope of revolting from the Romans might call him, and by his presence to give encouragement to those who inclined to support his cause. [10] Murgantia⁶ was first recovered, after the inhabitants had betrayed the Roman garrison. There a great quantity of grain and supplies of every kind had been accumulated for the Romans.