He was
shofet (judge) of
Carthage in 410 BC and in 409 BC commanded a Carthaginian army sent to
Sicily in response to a request from the city of
Segesta. In the
Battle of Selinus he successfully took the Greek city of Selinus and then
Himera. In the process of this conquest he was said to have killed some 3,000 prisoners of war, reportedly as revenge for the defeat his grandfather suffered in the
Battle of Himera 70 years before. ==Death==