Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Libya, Lilybaeum

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Lilybaeum

（Αιλύβαιον). The modern Marsala; a town in the west of Sicily, with an excellent harbour, situated on a promontory of the same name, opposite to the Promontorium Hermaeum or Mercurii (Cape Bon) in Africa, the space between the two being the shortest distance between Sicily and Africa. The town was founded by the Carthaginians about B.C. 397, and was the strongest fortress possessed by them in Sicily, having massive walls surrounded by a huge moat forty feet in depth and some sixty feet wide. It was besieged by the Romans in the First Punic War, but they failed to take it, and it was only given up to them later as a part of the concessions made in the final treaty of peace.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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