The Mamertini, in a sudden reversal, spurn…

264 BCE

The Mamertini, in a sudden reversal, spurn Carthage when Hiero again attacks Messana in 264 BCE: calling on the Romans for aid, they accept forces from Rome.

The gathering of the two rival intervening armies precipitates a general war, known as the First Punic War.

Hiero at once joins the Carthaginian leader Hanno, who has recently landed in Sicily, but the Roman consul Appius Claudius defeats them, and …

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