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HANNO , the name of a large number of Carthaginian soldiers and statesmen. Of the See also:

majority little is known; the most important are the followings: 1. HANNO, Carthaginian navigator, who probably flourished about 500 B.C. It has been conjectured that he was the son of the Hamilcar who was killed at See also:Himera (48o), but there is nothing to prove this. He was the author of an See also:account of a See also:coasting voyage on the See also:west See also:coast of See also:Africa, undertaken for the purpose of exploration and colonization. The See also:original, inscribed on a tablet in the Phoenician See also:language, was hung up in the See also:temple of Melkarth on his return to See also:Carthage. What is generally sup-posed to be a See also:Greek See also:translation of this is still extant; under the See also:title of Periplus, although its authenticity has been questioned. Hanno appears to have advanced beyond Sierra Leone as far as Cape Palmas. On the See also:island which formed the See also:terminus of his voyage the explorer found a number of hairy See also:women, whom the interpreters called Gorillas (Popixxas). Valuable See also:editions by T. See also:Falconer (1797, with translation and See also:defence of its authenticity) and C. W.

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Muller in Geographici Graeci minores, i. ; see also E. H. See also:Bunbury, See also:History of See also:Ancient See also:Geography, i., and See also:treatise by C. T. See also:Fischer (1893), with bibliography. 2. HANNO (3rd See also:century B.C.), called " the See also:Great," Carthaginian statesman and See also:general, See also:leader of the aristocratic party and the See also:chief opponent of Hamilcar and See also:Hannibal. He appears to have gained his title from military successes in Africa, but of these nothing is known. In 240 B.C. he drove Hamilcar's See also:veteran mercenaries to See also:rebellion by withholding their pay, and when invested with the command against them was so unsuccessful that Carthage might have been lost but for the exertions of his enemy Hamilcar (q.v.). Hanno subsequently remained at Carthage, exerting all his See also:influence against the democratic party, which, however, had now definitely won the upper See also:hand. During the Second Punic See also:War he advocated See also:peace with See also:Rome, and according to See also:Livy even advised that Hannibal should be given up to the See also:Romans.

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battle of Zama (202) he was one of the ambassadors sent to Scipio to See also:sue for peace. Remarkably little is known of him, considering the great influence he undoubtedly exercised amongst his countrymen. Livy xxi. 3 if., See also:xxiii. 12; See also:Polybius i. 67 ff. ; See also:Appian, Res Hispanicae, 4, 5, Res Punicae, 34, 49, 68.

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