Acragas (Second Cart hag in i an Invasion of Sicily)

This fortre was besieged B.C. 406 by the Cart hag in i ans under Hannibal, the garrison being commanded by Dexippus the Spartan. Early in the siege a pestilence in the Cart hag in i an camp carried off Hannibal, who was succeeded by his cousin, Himilco. A relieving army of 35,000 Syracusans, under Daphnæus fought a pitched battle with the Cart hag in i ans under the walls of the city, and succeeded in seizing and holding one of their camps, but shortly afterwards di ensions broke out in the garrison, and many of the foreign mercenaries deserting, the citizens, after a siege of eight months, left the place en ma e . The Cart hag in i ans at once occupied the fortre .