Amilcar

, a Cart hag in i an general of great eloquence and cunning, surnamed Rhodanus. When the A then i ans were afraid of Alexander, Amilcar went to his camp, gained his confidence, and secretly transmitted an account of all his schemes to Athens. Trogus , bk. 21 , ch. 6 .――A Cart hag in i an, whom the Syracusans called to their a istance against the tyrant Agathocles, who besieged their city. Amilcar soon after favoured the interest of Agathocles, for which he was accused at Carthage. He died in Syracuse, B.C. 309. Diodorus , bk. 20 .— Justin , bk. 22 , chs. 2 & 3.――A Cart hag in i an, surnamed Barcas, father to the celebrated Annibal. He was general in Sicily during the first Punic war; and after a peace had been made with the Romans, he quelled a rebellion of slaves, who had besieged Carthage, and taken many towns of Africa, and rendered themselves so formidable to the Cart hag in i ans that they begged and obtained a istance from Rome. After this, he pa ed into Spain with his son Annibal, who was but nine years of age, and laid the foundation of the town of Barcelona. He was killed in a battle against the Vettones, B.C. 237. He had formed the plan of an invasion of Italy, by cro ing the Alps, which his son afterwards carried into execution. His great enmity to the Romans was the cause of the second Punic war. He used to say of his three sons, that he kept three lions to devour the Roman power. Cornel i us Nepos , Lives of Distinguished Romans .— Livy , bk. 21 , ch. 1 .— Polybius , bk. 2 .— Plutarch , Life of Hannibal .――A Cart hag in i an general, who a isted the Insubres against Rome, and was taken by Cnaeus Cornel i us. Livy , bk. 32 , ch. 30 ; bk. 33 , ch. 8 .――A son of Hanno, defeated in Sicily by Gelon, the same day that Xerxes was defeated at Salamis by Them is toc les. He burnt himself, that his body might not be found among the slain. Sacrifices were offered to him. Hero dot us , bk. 7 , ch. 165 , .