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omens '. Aegates insulas. Islands a few miles off the west coast of Sicily, which gave their name to the sea battle which gave Rome the final victory in the First Punic War (241 BC). According to Zonaras, 8, 17, before the naval battle ' a meteor had...

Dio's Rome: Gleanings from the lost books. I. The epitome of books 1-21 ... - Page 189
by Cassius Dio Cocceianus - 1905
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Dio's Roman History, Volume 2

Cassius Dio Cocceianus - Rome - 1914 - 536 pages

...these new arrivals. When the forces had been marshalled in hostile array, a star resembling a torch appeared above the Romans and after rising high to...Carthaginians plunged into their ranks. The naval combat was a . Zonaras 8, 17. eV а/лфом картера Si aXXa те ка1 iva /ièv K.ap•fflSovioi...

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