Mathó

Mathô (?) - (- 237)

African Mercenary, it fought in Sicily during the First Punic War. Powerful speaker and influence, it was made the main leader of war of the mercenaries. As of the insurrection, Mathô sought to reconcile the African cities of the interior, which, thanks to its origins Libya, does not succeed partly: thousands of Africans joined the cause of the mercenaries. It then decided to besiege Hippo Acra after being seized Tunis, and this one made alliance with them quickly (- 239). It then left to block the city of Carthage itself and installed its headquarters in Tunis. It is there into -238, that it was besieged soon by Hamilcar Barca. Daring, it broke the seat by demolishing the auxiliary body of the Hannibal general, carried out this one and flees of the city with its troops. In -237, after a sanguinary guerilla who exhausted little by little his men, without any outside assistance from now on, Mathô was solved to finish of it in -237 at the time of a battle arranged towards Leptis Parva: it was finally overcome thanks to the assistance brought by a prince Numide, Naravas, and fell to the hands from Punic after the battle. He died in the worst torments with Carthage the same year.

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