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Updated: June 17, 2025
This fleet, under command of C. Lutatius Catulus, gained a decisive victory over the Carthaginian Hanno, at the Aegatian Islands, opposite Lilybaeum . The Carthaginians were forced to conclude peace, and to make large concessions. They gave up all claim to Italy and to the neighboring small islands. They were to pay an indemnity, equal to four million dollars, in ten years.
He had thrown back his head in order to see. His partisans urged him to speak. At last in a hoarse and hideous voice he said: "Less arrogance, Barca! We have all been vanquished! Each one supports his own misfortune! Be resigned!" "Tell us rather," said Hamilcar, smiling, "how it was that you steered your galleys into the Roman fleet?" "I was driven by the wind," replied Hanno.
For when a man is far removed from those things which occasion a desire of money, from love, ambition, or other daily extravagance, why should he be fond of money, or concern himself at all about it? Could the Scythian Anacharsis disregard money, and shall not our philosophers be able to do so? We are informed of an epistle of his in these words: "Anacharsis to Hanno, greeting.
It seems that such was its character thousands of years ago, even when pagan. At the time when Hanno was sent by the Carthaginian senate beyond the Pillars of Hercules to explore the western coast of Africa, toward the south of which voyage the short narrative is still left us Himilco, brother to Hanno, was similarly commissioned to form settlements on the European coast, toward the north.
I passed in a ship from Italy to Corinth, and there at once hired a vessel to convey me hither." "As we are members of the senate," Hanno said, "you can deliver your message to us." "I fear that it will go no further," Malchus replied. "The fact that I have been thus secretly seized and carried here, shows how far it is your wish that the people of Carthage should know my message.
Antigonus closed his long career at the battle of Ipsus B.C. 301, where he was defeated and killed. I may have sometimes written it Hannibal. Thus we have Anno and Hanno. Eumenes was one of the generals of Alexander who accompanied him to Asia. After Alexander's death, he obtained for his government a part of Asia Minor bordering on the Euxine, and extending as far east as Trapezus.
Hanno, with an air of perfect ease and composure, spoke somewhat as follows: "I should have said nothing, but should have allowed the senate to take what action they pleased on Mago's proposition if I had not been particularly addressed. As it is, I will say that I think now just as I always have thought.
It was as light as day in the vicinity of the tent, and Biamite huntsmen and traders were moving to and fro among the slaves and attendants as though it was market time. "Your father, too," Hanno remarked in his awkward fashion, "will scarcely make life hard for us. We shall probably find him in Pontus. He is getting a cargo of wood for Egypt there. We have had dealings with him a long time.
The victorious Hanno presented himself before the gates of Utica. He had a trumpet sounded. The three Judges of the town appeared in the opening of the battlements on the summit of a tower. But the people of Utica would not receive such well-armed guests. Hanno was furious. At last they consented to admit him with a feeble escort. The streets were too narrow for the elephants.
Yet it must be done, for only in case Hanno succeeded in delivering both sculptors to her alive would she consider herself she could not repeat it often enough bound to fulfil what she had promised him.
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