May 205 BC — the Second Punic War
Chapter VI · The ring closes — Metaurus & Ilipa — the ring closes.
This month
- Mago sails — the Balearics slip from Carthage — Refused by Mallorca, Mago winters on Minorca, levies two thousand slingers and sails for Liguria; no Carthaginian returns and the islanders keep their own. (Livy 28.37)
- Genua razed by Mago — Mago lands from the Balearics with thirty warships, takes Genua by surprise and destroys it, then raises the Ligurians and Gauls for a last northern front. (Livy 28.46)
Where the commanders stand
- Philip V of Macedon: In Pella · king of macedon
- Syphax: On the road from Siga to Cirta
- Masinissa: In Cirta · king of the massylii
- Hasdrubal son of Gisco: In Carthage · since Summer 206 BC
- Mago Barca: Winter quarters at Portus Magonis, Minorca · 206/05
- Q. Fabius Maximus: In Rome · princeps senatus
- Hannibal Barca: Operating in the region of the Bruttian redoubt · 2nd year
- Publius Cornelius Scipio: In Consul against the Senate · consul
- Hasdrubal Barca: fell here, June 207 BC
- M. Claudius Marcellus: fell here, June 208 BC
- Publius & Gnaeus Scipio: fell here, June 211 BC