After the death of Hamilcar, Hannibal continued Carthaginian expansion in Spain, reaching the Ebro River the limit imposed by Rome in the settlement of the First Punic War.
395 BCE Himilco, (died 395 bc) Carthaginian general who twice made conquests of the Greeks in Sicily that brought him to the gates of Syracuse and twice had his momentum broken by plague among his soldiers.
During his reign he took advantage of the defeat of Carthaginian power in Sicily (in 480) to greatly increase the power of Syracuse.
Up to 10,000 Romans managed to fight their way through the Carthaginian lines and escape to Placentia, where they remained in camp as Scipio had originally suggested until spring.
In 262 they besieged and captured the Carthaginian base at Agrigentum on the south coast of the island.
When the Austrians and British threatened war over a Carthaginian peace imposed on Turkey by the Russian victors, Bismarck called for a peace congress in Berlin.
Later there was a Carthaginian naval station, until the Romans took over in 252 bce.
The Segestans then appealed to Carthage for help in their struggle against Selinus, and consequently a Carthaginian army of 100,000 men took and destroyed Selinus in 409; the city's walls were razed, and only 2,600 of its inhabitants escaped.
Another of Etna's better-known ancient eruptions was that of 396 bce, which kept the Carthaginian army from reaching Catania.
It occupies the site of an ancient Carthaginian town and later Roman colony, Sicca Veneria, which was at the centre of the Mercenaries' War (or "Truceless War"), sparked by the revolt of unpaid mercenaries in the 3rd century bce.
When a Roman delegation observed the Carthaginian army raised in breach of the treaty of 201, Rome was provided with the casus belli for a declaration of war in 149; Polybius, however, claims that the Senate had decided on this war "long before".
