But in their year of office we were utterly defeated off the Aegates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. III] Reference

Remember the Aegates and Eryx, and all you had to go through for four-and-twenty years.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. III] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. IV] Reference

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 First Punic War.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Madonna turns photographer] Reference

One might, of course, compare the naval defeat of the Carthaginians at the Aegates, which broke their power to such an extent that they gave up Sicily and Sardinia and submitted to the payment of tribute and a war indemnity; or, again, the battle which they lost in Africa, in which Hannibal himself was crushed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Vol. III] Reference

241 BC following the Battle of the Aegates in the First Punic War.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Madonna turns photographer] Reference

Aegates Islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subject Index Page 2] Reference