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Events
- Second Punic War:
- *Cato the Elder goes to Sicily to serve as the quaestor of Scipio Africanus Major, and publicly objects to Scipio's lavish spending.
- *Scipio Africanus Major lands in Africa to fight the Carthaginians on their own soil, and apparently Hanno Barca was killed in a cavalry ambush set by Scipio near Utica
- * Hannibal fights a drawn battle against the Roman general Sempronius in the Battle of Crotona.
- * Hasdrubal Gisco and Syphax led a large army against Scipio, but instead an armistice was arranged between the opponents
- In Rome, the Lex Cincia forbids courtroom advocates from accepting fees for services rendered.
- Livius Andronicus, pioneer Latin poet
- Pharaoh Arsinoe III of Egypt of the Ptolemaic Dynasty (murdered)
- Hanno Barca, Carthaginian general, killed in combat
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