The Roman fleet victorious over the Carthaginians at the Battle of Cape Ecnomus, Sicily, 256 BC. A Roman quinquereme with sea-monster prow and manned by slave oarsmen rams a Carthaginian galley. Bataille d'Ecnome gagnee sur mer par les Romains. Copperplate engraving by J. Blaschke after a design by Gabriel de St. Aubin from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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