A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

342'.. HANNO. HANNO.
DIUS, son of the elder, brother of the younger speaks of Hanno in the following book (xxi. 4) as
Delmatius [DELMATIUS], grandson of Constantius "princeps Carthaginiensium," and as possessed of
Chlorus, and nephew of the foregoing, received in private wealth and resources exceeding those of
marriage Constantina, daughter of his uncle Con- the state itself. This-great power led him, accordstantine the Great, by whom he was nominated to ing to the same author, to aim at possessing himthe government of Pontus, Cappadocia, and Lesser self of the absolute sovereignty. After a fruitless
Armenia, with the title of king, a designation attempt to poison the senators at a marriage-feast,
which had never been assumed by any Roman he excited a rebellion among the slaves, but his
ruler since the expulsion of Tarquin the Proud, and schemes were again frustrated, and he fled for
which would have been regarded with horror and refuge to a fortress in the interior, where he asdisgust even in the days of Nero or Commodus. sembled an army of 20,000 men, and invoked the
However startling the appellation may appear, assistance of the Africans and Moors. But he
nothing can be more unreasonable than the scep- soon fell into the hands of the Carthaginians, who
ticism of Gibbon, for the fact is not only recorded crucified him, together with his sons and all his
by Ammianus and other historians of the period, kindred. (Justin. xxi. 4, xxii. 7.) The date of this
but their testimony is fully corroborated by coins event, which is related only by Justin and Orounquestionably genuine, which bear the legend FL. sius (iv. 6, who copies Justin almost verbatim),
(or FL. CL.) HANNIBALLIANO. REGI. This prince and incidentally alluded to by Aristotle (Pol. v. 7),
shared the fate of his kindred, and perished in must apparently be placed between the first expulthe general massacre of the imperial family which sion and the return of the younger Dionysius, i. e.
followed the death of Constantine. (Amm. Marc. between 356 and 346 B. c. There is a Hanno menxiv. 1, and note of Valesius; Aur. Vict. Epit. 61; tioned by Polyaenus (v. 9) as commanding a CarChron. Paschal. 286; Spanheim, de Usu et Praest. thaginian fleet on the coast of Sicily against DionyNAumismat. Diss. xii.; Eckhel, vol. viii. p. 104.) siuns, who may be the same with the above.
[W. R.] Bitticher also conjectures (Gesch. der Carthager,
p. 178) that the Hanno mentioned by Diodorus
-A > (xvi. 81.) as the father of Gisco [Gisco, No. 2] is
no other than this one; but there is no proof of
I....X i I this supposition.
4. Commander of the Carthaginian fleet and
army sent to Sicily in B. C. 344, according to Diodorns (xvi. 67). In all the subsequent operations
COIN OF HANNIBALLIANUS. of that expedition, Plutarch speaks of Mago as the
HANNO (rAvvcv). This name seems to have Carthaginian commander (Timol. 17-20); but in
been still more common at Carthage than those of one place (lb. 19), he mentions Hanno as lying in
Hamilcar and Hannibal; hence it is even more wait with a squadron to intercept the Corinthian
difficult to distinguish or identify, with any reason- ships. Whether the same person is meant in bothl
able probability, the numerous persons that bore it. these cases, or that Hanno in Diodorus is merely a
In the enumeration of them here given, it has been mistake for Mago, it seems impossible to decide.
judged the safest plan to consider all those as dis- 5. One of the generals appointed to take the
tinct whom there are no sufficient grounds for iden- field against Agathocles when the latter had effected
tifying; though it is probable that several of them his landing in Africa, B. C. 310. He is said to
might prove to be the same person, if our inform- have had an hereditary feud with Bomilcar, his
ation were more complete. But as we repeatedly colleague in the command, which did not, however,
meet with two or more Hannos in the same army, prevent their co-operation. In the battle that enor engaged in the same enterprise, it is evident that sued Hanno commanded the right wing, and placed
no presumption arises of identity from the mere himself at the head of the sacred battalion, a select
circumstance of their being contemporaries. body of heavy infantry, apparently native Cartha1. Father of the Hamilcar who was killed at Hi- ginians, with which he attacked the enemy's left.
mera, B..c. 480, according to Herodotus (vii. 165). wing vigorously, and for a time successfully, but at
See HAMILCAR, No,. 1. length fell covered with wounds, on which his
2. Son of the same Hamilcar, according to Justin troops gave way. (Diod. xx. 10-12; Justin. xxii,
(xix. 2). It is probable that this is the same with 6; comp. Oros. iv. 6.)
the father of Himilco, who took Agrigentum, B. c. 6. One of the three generals appointed to act
406 (Diod. xiii. 80); it:being expressly stated by against Archagathus, the son of Agathocles, in
Diodorus that that general and Hannibal, the son Africa. He totally defeated the Syracusan general,
of Gisco, who was also grandson of Hamilcar, No. Aeschrion, who was opposed to him. (Diod. xx.
1, were of the same family. Heeren (Iden, vol. 59, 60.)
iv. p. 539) conjectures this Hanno to be the same 7. Commander of the Carthaginian garrison at
with the navigator and author of the Periplus. Messana, at the beginning of the first Punic war,
3. According to Justin (xx. 5), the commander B. C. 264. It appears that while one party of the
of the Carthaginians in Sicily in one of their wars Mamertines had sent to request assistance from
with Dionysius in the latter part of his reign (pro- Rome, the adverse faction had had recourse to Carbably the last. of all, concerning which we have thage, and had actually put Hanno with a body
little information in Diodorus), was named tHanno, of Carthaginian troops in possession of the citadel.
H'lie is apparently the same to whom the epithet Hence, when the Roman officer, C. Claudius, came
Magnus is applied in the epitome of Trogus Pom- to announce to the Mamertines that the Romans
peius (Prol. xx.); and it is probable that the were sending a force to their support, and called on
twentieth book of that author contained a relation them to eject the Carthaginians, no answer was re,
of the exploits in Africa by which he earned this turned. On this, Claudius retired to Rhegium,
title. These arm omitted by Justin, who, however, where he collected a few ships, with which he at