Tyrant
“Settling up local affairs now seemed a trifling concern. The word was that the Carthaginians had sent an embassy to Athens to convince the city government to continue their war against the Spartans, even though the foremost Athenian general, Alcibiades, had fled to Asia. This would prevent Sparta from coming to the aid of Syracuse in Sicily when Carthage decided to attack. They also learned that the Athenians had sent a delegation to meet with the Carthaginian generals in Sicily. Athens hated t...he Syracusans with such a passion that she would have made a pact with anyone if it could wreak harm to the city that had routed and defeated her men seven years before.
The government of Syracuse protested with an official note against the preparations for war, but they did not even obtain a response. Daphnaeus decided then to send a fleet of forty ships into the waters of western Sicily, and to repair the port of Selinus as well as possible in order to prevent a Carthaginian disembarkation. In their first engagement, the Syracusans sank fifteen of the enemy ships but as soon as Hannibal sent his entire fleet of eighty massive battleships out to sea, Daphnaeus ordered his vessels to retreat so they would not be totally wiped out.MoreLess
The government of Syracuse protested with an official note against the preparations for war, but they did not even obtain a response. Daphnaeus decided then to send a fleet of forty ships into the waters of western Sicily, and to repair the port of Selinus as well as possible in order to prevent a Carthaginian disembarkation. In their first engagement, the Syracusans sank fifteen of the enemy ships but as soon as Hannibal sent his entire fleet of eighty massive battleships out to sea, Daphnaeus ordered his vessels to retreat so they would not be totally wiped out.MoreLess
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