Hannibal executed by soldiers

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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · sardinia campaign · roman fleet shipwreck · regulus captured · naval warfare and sea power · conquest, plunder, and captives · civil war and rebellion

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The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 secondary

Titus Livius (Livy) · c. 27 BCE–17 CE (for Ab urbe condita; individual books composed within this span)
BOOK IX.

Continuing Book IX summaries: Sardinia and Corsica feature Carthaginian warfare, including Hanno; Roman consul Atilius Calatinus is rescued; Hannibal the fleet commander is executed by his soldiers; Regulus and the Roman fleet losses are recounted.

Sardinians and Corsicans, together with Hanno, the Carthaginian general, in the island of Sardinia. [Y.R. 494. B.C. 258.] Atilius Calatinus, consul, drawn into an ambuscade by the Carthaginians, is rescued by the skill and valour of M. Calpurnius, a military tribune, who making a sudden attack upon the enemy, with a body of only three hundred men, turns their whole force against himself. [Y.R. 495. B.C. 257.] Hanniba…