Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . than might havebeen looked for. It may be that Dion)sios foundthat such distant conquests could not really be left a garrison, chiefly of Sikels, in Motya ; heleft his brother Leptines with the fleet to watch thecoast, and he also left forces to go on with the siegesof Segesta and Entella. He himself went back toSyracuse for the winter. The next year (396)Carthage began to put forth her full strength for thewar. Himilkon, now Shophet, came with a vastarmy and won back all that Dionysios had could not hinder the Punic fleet from re
Sicily : Phoenician, Greek, And Roman . than might havebeen looked for. It may be that Dion)sios foundthat such distant conquests could not really be left a garrison, chiefly of Sikels, in Motya ; heleft his brother Leptines with the fleet to watch thecoast, and he also left forces to go on with the siegesof Segesta and Entella. He himself went back toSyracuse for the winter. The next year (396)Carthage began to put forth her full strength for thewar. Himilkon, now Shophet, came with a vastarmy and won back all that Dionysios had could not hinder the Punic fleet from reach-ing Panormos. Eryx was taken by treachery ; thesiege of Segesta was raised ; above all, Motya waswon back by storm. Unluckily we have no now Himilkon determined to choose anotherpoint for the chief seat of Phoenician power in WesternSicily. He forsook Motya, and founded anothertown on the point of Lilybaion, where we wonderthat no town had been founded before. Lilybaionbecame a wonderfully strong fortress, of which the. FOUNDATION OF LILYBAION. 173 ditches and parts of the walls arc still to be the Arabic name of Marsala, it is the chiefseat of the Sicilian wine-trade. Having thus provided for the defence of theCarthaginian dominion, Himilkon determined toattack the Greeks of Eastern Sicily. He took hisfleet and army along the north coast to attackMessana. He did not even stay to chastise the menof Therma, but he sailed to Lipara and made theislanders pay thirty talents. Then he attacked Messana,The walls had been neglected, and the horsemen ofthe city were with Dionysios. So Messana fell intothe hands of the Carthaginians ; but most of thepeople escaped. Himilkons object now was tomarch against Syracuse, but, before that, he wentthrough a solemn ceremony of destruction, which,though wrought only against stones and not againstmen, reminds one of Hannibals sacrifice at destroyed the town of Messana in a solemn andsymbolic way, to mark his hat
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