Hasdrubal
Americannoun
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died 207 b.c., Carthaginian general (brother of Hannibal).
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died 221 b.c., Carthaginian general (brother-in-law of Hannibal).
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No such brutality stains his name as that perpetrated by Claudius Nero on the vanquished Hasdrubal.
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Hasdrubal, son-in-law of the conqueror, was the founder of Cartagena, or New Carthage, the centre of Carthaginian rule in Spain, and the wealthiest city of the Peninsula.
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Much older than Murcia, Cartagena has preserved even fewer monuments of antiquity, though it has not lost the military character first impressed upon it by its founder Hasdrubal.
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Hasdrubal, the brother of Hannibal, had been harassed in Spain by the two Scipios—Cn.
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There Hasdrubal himself, fighting like a lion, was killed with ten thousand of his men.
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