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Often appears with: naval warfare and sea power · conquest, plunder, and captives · titus manlius · supply, logistics, and encampment · strategy and the aims of war · siege and fortification · roman fleet shipwreck · regulus captured · orestes · military discipline and training · micipsa corn shipment · hannibal executed by soldiers
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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…
In Sardinia, Titus Manlius takes over the war from a sick praetor, defeats Hampsicora’s forces, then restores order as the Punic fleet arrives; he fights Hasdrubal and forces an end to the fighting.
Tifata, and sat down in the Claudian camp above Suessula, whence he sent Marcus Marcellus, the proconsul, with those forces which he had under him, to Nola for its protection. 40. In Sardinia also the operations of the war, which had been intermitted from the time that Quintus Mucius, the praetor, had been seized with a serious illness, began to be conducted by Titus Manlius, the praetor. Having hauled the ships of …
In Sardinia Caius proves military competence and frugality, persuades towns to clothe the soldiers, then returns to Rome after senators offend African ambassadors; censors find him injured, and he contests further charges.
Caius? There is no escape; one life and one death is appointed for us both, to spend the one and to meet the other, in the service of the people." Caius was no sooner arrived in Sardinia, but he gave exemplary proofs of his high merit; he not only excelled all the young men of his age in his actions against his enemies, in doing justice to his inferiors, and in showing all obedience and respect to his superior offic…