An extraordinary contribution of 1000 talents of silver (,£244,000) and 20,000 oxen was levied, and the sheiks in all the communities that had revolted were crucified ; it is said that there were three thousand of them, and that this revolting atrocity on the part of the Cartha ginian
really laid the foundation of the revolution
1 Nothing further is known with certainty as to the end of Regulus ; 251.
1 Nothing further is known with certainty as to the end of Regulus ; 251.
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
