5] L After the rule of kings was at an end, the Carthaginians were the first that made themselves masters of the country; 2 for when the inhabitants of Gades, according to directions which they received in a dream, had removed the sacred things of Hercules from Tyre, whence also the Carthaginians had their origin, into Spain, and had built a city there, the neighbouring people of the country grew jealous of the rise of this new city, and in
attacked Gades in war, but the Carthaginians sent them succour as being their kindred.
Justinus - Epitome of Historae Philippicae
