person
Agathocles
Tyrant and self-styled king of Syracuse (c. 361-289 BC) who carried the war against Carthage into Africa itself.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 28 §43 Agathocles
Agathocles of Syracuse, who in the late 4th century carried the war against Carthage into Africa — Scipio's counter-precedent to Fabius's gloomy examples.