X-Nico

Cesare Maccari

Atilius Regulus who had been sent back to Rome after being captured by Carthage during the First Punic War, urges the Senate to reject the Carthaginian peace offer he was sent to deliver, even while vowing to return to Carthage as a prisoner, where he knows he will be executed

Heraclea Minoa

Again, in 256 BC, it was at Heraclea that the Carthaginian fleet of 350 ships was posted for the purpose of preventing the passage of the Roman fleet to Africa, and where it sustained a great defeat from the Roman consuls Regulus and Manlius.

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