A Manual of Ancient History, From the Remotest Times to the Overthrow of the Western Empire, A. D. 476
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After this success, the Romans were so emboldened that they resolved to drive the Carthaginians from all their insular possessions, and expeditions were undertaken at the same time against Sardinia and Corsica. The operations in Sicily were in the meantime carried on with less vigour, and the Carthaginians gained some advantages; but the ascendancy of the Romans was restored in B. c. 258 by the consul Atilius Calatinus. Myttistratum, which had been besieged by the Romans for some time, was aban...doned by the Carthaginian garrison, and fell into the hands of the Ro- mans. Camarina and many other towns were either taken or sur- rendered. 3. But notwithstanding these and other successful enterprises, one half of Sicily was still in the hands of the Carthaginians, and the Romans had only recovered what they had previously lost. In B. c. 256, however, the Romans made immense exertions, and a large fleet of three hundred and thirty sail was got ready, intended to cross over into Africa under the command of the consuls L.
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