Lectures On Ancient History Comprising a General View of the Principal Events
Lectures On Ancient History Comprising a General View of the Principal Events
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203 what they had done, Agathocles marched directly towards Carthage, spreading terror and dismay through all the territory. The Carthaginians, supposing that their army was utterly lost, aban- doned themselves to despair, and acted as if Aga- thocles was already master of the city. In a few days, however, finding that all things in Sicily were safe, they resumed their courage, and pre- pared to meet the Syracusans in the open field. An army, vastly superior to that of Agathocles, commanded by ...Hanno and Bomilcar, met him, and might have obtained an easy victory, if ihey had contended with a general whose talents were on a level with their own. But, by a skilful dis- position of his forces, as well as by taking ad- vantage of their superstitious feelings to favour his cause, Agathocles obtained a complete victory. The Carthaginians attributed their defeat to the anger of Saturn, because they had sacrificed to him children of poor and obscure parents, instead of those nobly born. Anxious to appease their offended deity, 200 children of the noblest fami- lies were thrown into the flames.
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203 what they had done, Agathocles marched directly towards Carthage, spreading terror and dismay through all the territory. The Carthaginians, supposing that their army was utterly lost, aban- doned themselves to despair, and acted as if Aga- thocles was already master of the city. In a few days, however, finding that all things in Sicily were safe, they resumed their courage, and pre- pared to meet the Syracusans in the open field. An army, vastly superior to that of Agathocles, commanded by ...Hanno and Bomilcar, met him, and might have obtained an easy victory, if ihey had contended with a general whose talents were on a level with their own. But, by a skilful dis- position of his forces, as well as by taking ad- vantage of their superstitious feelings to favour his cause, Agathocles obtained a complete victory. The Carthaginians attributed their defeat to the anger of Saturn, because they had sacrificed to him children of poor and obscure parents, instead of those nobly born. Anxious to appease their offended deity, 200 children of the noblest fami- lies were thrown into the flames.
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