Bomilcar (suffete)

For other people with the same name, see Bomilcar (disambiguation).

Bomilcar (3rd century BC) was a Carthaginian nobleman and commander in the Second Punic War.

He was a son-in-law of Hamilcar Barca and the father of the Hanno who commanded a portion of Hannibal's army at the passage of the Rhone (218 BC) and at the Battle of Cannae. This Bomilcar seems to have been one of the Carthaginian suffetes ^[1] and to have presided in that assembly of the senate in which the second Punic war was resolved on.^[2]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

Footnotes

↑ see Gottling, Excurs, iii. ad Arist. Polit. p. 484 (cited by Smith)
↑ Polyb. iii. 33, 42 ; Liv. xxi. 18, 27, 28.) (cited by Smith)

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