Bomilcar (Suffete)
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For other persons of the same name, see Bomilcar.
Bomilcar (3rd century BC) was a Carthaginian nobleman and commander in the Second Punic War.
He was the father of the Hanno who commanded a portion of Hannibal's army at the passage of the Rhone, 213 BC. This Bomilcar seems to have been one of the Carthaginian Suffetes (rex, not praetor)[1] and to have presided in that assembly of the senate in which the second Punic war was resolved on.[2]
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- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
