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Often appears with: winter quarters · supply, logistics, and encampment · roman fleet victories · naval warfare and sea power · marcus valerius laevinus · conquest, plunder, and captives
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After Orinx falls, Roman forces withdraw for winter; Lucius Scipio and Hanno are sent to Rome as prizes, while Valerius Laevinus ravages around Utica and Carthage, defeats a Carthaginian fleet, and sends supplies to Rome.
returned to Lilybaeum with immense booty of every kind. The ships of the enemy having thus been driven from the whole sea, large supplies of corn were conveyed to Rome. 5. In the beginning of the summer in which these events occurred, Publius Sulpicius, proconsul, and king Attalus, having passed the winter at Aegina, as before observed, united their fleets, consisting of twenty-three Roman quinqueremes and thirty-fi…