Usage examples (7)

• But in their year of office we were utterly defeated off the Aegates.
• Remember the Aegates and Eryx, and all you had to go through for four-and-twenty years.
• He drew an omen and declared that the gods had vouchsafed the same auspices to them as those under which their fathers fought at the Aegates.
• Carthage seized control of the city in 260 BC, subsequently making it an important naval base, but ceded it to Rome in 241 BC following the Battle of the Aegates in the...