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MAGO , the name of several Carthaginians. (1) The reputed founder of the military See also:

power of See also:Carthage, fl. 550—500 B.C. (See also:Justin xviii. 7, xix. 1). (2) The youngest of the three sons of Hamilcar See also:Barca. He accompanied See also:Hannibal into See also:Italy, and held important commands in the See also:great victories of the first three years. After the See also:battle of See also:Cannae (216 B.C.) he sailed to Carthage to See also:report the successes gained. He was about to return to Italy with strong reinforcements for Hannibal, when the See also:government ordered him to go to the aid of his other See also:brother, See also:Hasdrubal, who was hard pressed in See also:Spain. He carried on the See also:war there with varying success in See also:concert with the two Hasdrubals until, in 209, his brother marched into Italy to help Hannibal. Mago remained in Spain with Hasdrubal, the son of Gisco.

In 207 he was defeated by M. See also:

Junius Silanus, and in 206 the combined forces of Mago and Hasdrubal were scattered by Scipio See also:Africanus in the decisive battle of Silpia. Mago maintained himself for some See also:time in Gades, but afterwards received orders to carry the war into See also:Liguria. He wintered in the Balearic Isles, where the See also:harbour See also:Portus Magonis (See also:Port Mahon) still bears his name. See also:Early in 204 he landed in Liguria, where he maintained a desultory warfare till in 203 he was defeated in Cisalpine See also:Gaul by the See also:Roman forces. Shortly afterwards he was ordered to return to Carthage, but on the voyage See also:home he died of wounds received in battle. See See also:Polybius iii.; See also:Livy xxi.—See also:xxiii.; See also:xxviii., chs. 23—37; See also:xxix., See also:xxx. ; See also:Appian, Hispanics, 25–37; T. See also:Friedrich, Biographie See also:des Barkiden Mago; H. See also:Lehmann, Der Angriff der drei Barkiden auf Italien (See also:Leipzig, 1905); and further J. P.

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Mahaffy, in Hermathena, vii. 29—36 (1890). (3) The name of Mago is also attached to a great See also:work on See also:agriculture which was brought to See also:Rome and translated by See also:order of the See also:senate after the destruction of Carthage. The See also:book was regarded as a See also:standard authority, and is often referred to by later writers. See See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. xviii. 5; See also:Columella, i. 1; See also:Cicero, De oratore, i. 58.

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