person
Hieronymus
also: Hieronymus
Grandson of Hiero II and boy-king of Syracuse, who abandoned the Roman alliance for Carthage and ruled with such cruelty and arrogance that he was assassinated at Leontini within months.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 24 §4 his grandson Hieronymus
Grandson of Hiero II and boy-king of Syracuse, who abandoned the Roman alliance for Carthage and ruled with such cruelty and arrogance that he was assassinated at Leontini within months.
- The History of Rome, Book 25 §28 Hieronymus
Grandson and short-lived successor of Hiero, whose turn to Carthage began the Syracusan war; killed before the events of this book.
- The History of Rome, Book 26 §47 Hieronymus
Hiero's grandson, whose revolt to Hannibal began Syracuse's ruin.