HERBESSUS it. ERBESSUS — HERBESSUS, it. ERBESSUS Ptol. Erbessum Polyb. opp. olim Siciliae, nunc pagus 8. mill. pass. distans ab Agrigento Grutte hodie, teste Facello, Nigro Bicari dicitur. Baudr. le Grotte, in valle Mazara, prope Halicum amnem, intra montes 25. mill.… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
First Punic War — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=First Punic War partof=the Punic Wars caption= date=264 ndash; 241 BC casus= dispute between Carthage and Rome over the Mamertine city Messana place=Mediterranean Sea, Sicily, Sardinia, North Africa… … Wikipedia
262 BC — NOTOC EventsBy placeGreece* After Athens surrenders following a long siege by Macedonian forces, Antigonus II Gonatas re garrisons Athens and forbids the city from making war. Otherwise, he leaves Athens alone as the seat of philosophy and… … Wikipedia
Epicydes — or Epikudês (3rd century BC) was a Carthaginian general in the Second Punic War.A Syracusan by origin, he was born and educated at Carthage as the son of a Carthaginian mother. His grandfather, after having been banished by Agathocles, had… … Wikipedia