Character of Hamilcar Phameas
Hamilcar Phameas1 was the general of theHamilcar Phameas, the commander of the Punic cavalry. Appian, Pun. 100. |
Polybius's personal knowledge of Scipio. |
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Hamilcar Phameas, the commander of the Punic cavalry. Appian, Pun. 100. |
Polybius's personal knowledge of Scipio. |
1 Phameas was afterwards persuaded by Massanissa to join the Romans. Livy, Ep. 50.
2 The incident referred to is narrated in Appian. Punica, 103. Scipio relieved this body of men, who were beleaguered on the top of a hill, by a rapid and bold movement of his cavalry.
3 Odyssey, 20, 495. Cato had always been opposed to the Scipios, but Livy seems to attribute his former criticisms of the younger Africanus to his general habit of caustic disparagement (vir promptioris ad vituperandum linguae), and we know that his elder son had married a daughter of Paulus, sister to the younger Africanus.
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