Hamilcar

Proper noun

Meaning

Hamilcar

A Punic male given name from Punic

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After Carthage emerged victorious from the Mercenary War there were two opposing factions: the reformist party was led by Hamilcar Barca while the other, more conservative, faction was represented by Hanno the Great and the old Carthaginian aristocracy. Source: Internet

A first issue for dispute was that the initial treaty, agreed upon by Hamilcar Barca and the Roman commander in Sicily, had a clause stipulating that the Roman popular assembly had to accept the treaty in order for it to be valid. Source: Internet

Diodorus Siculus xiii. 43, 44. The Carthaginians in the following spring (409 BCE) sent over a vast army containing 100,000 men, according to the lowest ancient estimate, led by Hannibal Mago (the grandson of Hamilcar that was killed at Himera ). Source: Internet

Further, when he and Hamilcar were supreme commanders of Carthage's field armies, the soldiers had supported Hamilcar when his and Hamilcar's personalities clashed. Source: Internet

Hamilcar died in battle in 228 BC. Source: Internet

Hamilcar is named as another Carthaginian writing on agriculture (at 219). Source: Internet

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