Hasdrubal

the name of several distinguished Cart hag in i an generals, of whom the most noted were (1), the son of Hamilcar Barca ( q. v .) and brother of Hannibal ( q. v .); he played a prominent part in the Second Punic War, conquered Cn. Scipio in Spain (212 B.C.), and subsequently commanded the Cart hag in i an army in Italy; he fell at the battle of the Metaurus in 207 B.C.: (2) the brother-in-law of Hamilcar Barca, whom he succeeded in 228 B.C. as administrator of the new empire in the Iberian peninsula; he pushed the western frontiers back to the Tagus, and by his strong yet conciliatory government firmly established the Cart hag in i an power; he was a a inated in 221 B.C.