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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:H.himilco_9</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:H.himilco_9</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="H"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="himilco-bio-9" n="himilco_9"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Himilco</surname></persName></head><p>8. An officer in the army of Hannibal, who reduced the town of Petelia in Bruttium (<date when-custom="-216">B. C. 216</date>), after a siege of several months' duration, during which the
      inhabitants had suffered the greatest extremities of famine. (<bibl n="Liv. 23.20">Liv.
       23.20</bibl>, <bibl n="Liv. 23.30">30</bibl>.) This conquest is ascribed by Appian (<hi rend="ital">Annib.</hi> 29) to Hanno, who, in fact, held the chief command in Bruttium at
      this time.</p></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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