person
Philemenus
A Tarentine conspirator who used his habit of carrying in game by a wicket-gate to admit Hannibal's troops into Tarentum.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 25 §8 Philemenus
The huntsman-conspirator whose nightly comings and goings with game accustom the guards to open the wicket, letting Hannibal's men in (§8–9).
- The History of Rome, Book 27 §16 Philemenus
Author of the original betrayal of Tarentum to Hannibal; vanished at its recapture, thought drowned in a well.