Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . ng the time men may have doubted whether Rome CARTHAGE GIVES UP SICILY. 291 or Carthage had the better chance. We can see thatthe advance of Rome could not be checked, and wesee further that it was well that it could not be Greek Sicily could not remain free, if it could notbe independent under a Greek king, it was better thatit should at least have European masters. The fightof Aigousa determined that Sicily should remainEuropean for 1068 years. In fact it determined thatit should remain European for ever; it made thesecond S
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . ng the time men may have doubted whether Rome CARTHAGE GIVES UP SICILY. 291 or Carthage had the better chance. We can see thatthe advance of Rome could not be checked, and wesee further that it was well that it could not be Greek Sicily could not remain free, if it could notbe independent under a Greek king, it was better thatit should at least have European masters. The fightof Aigousa determined that Sicily should remainEuropean for 1068 years. In fact it determined thatit should remain European for ever; it made thesecond Semitic occupation something barbarian corner of Sicily was now won forEurope; the Greek subjects of Carthage passed underthe less unnatural rule of Rome ; the kingdom ofHieron still remained untouched within its ownborders, but practically a dependency of Rome. Wehave still some stirring tales to tell before all Sicilypasses under immediate Roman government; but itscomplete subjection is now only a question of XV. THE END OF SICILIAN INDEPENDENCE. 241-21 I. [As we have now come to the great Hannibalian War, the secondarymaterials, anecdotes, allusions, references of all kinds, are endless. Fromtlie beginning of the war we have the continuous narrative of Livy,founded in many parts on Polybios. We have Polybios own books fromthe second to the fifth, and fragments of those that follow. Of Dio-doros we have only fragments. There is the Life of Marcellus byPlutarch, and the Life of Hannibal by Cornelius Nepos. The Latinpoet Silius Italicus wrote a long poem on the war, in which there ismuch mention of Sicily, and he is very careful in his Sicilian only actually contemporary materials for this time are some versesof the poet Theokritos, addressed to King Hieron, and some fragmentsof the poem of the Italian Ennius on the war.] The establishment of the Roman power in Sicily isnot only a marked event in the history of the island ;it marks a
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