August 205 BC — the Second Punic War
Chapter VI · The ring closes — Metaurus & Ilipa — the ring closes.
This month
- Locri retaken for Rome — Locrian exiles let Scipio’s men into one citadel; Hannibal comes down to relieve the other and Scipio, crossing from Sicily, drives him off. The legate Pleminius then plunders the city and the temple of Persephone. (Livy 29.6–9)
Where the commanders stand
- Philip V of Macedon: In Pella · king of macedon
- Syphax: In Cirta · king of the masaesyli
- Masinissa: Operating in the region of the Massylian hills near Hippo · 3rd month
- Hasdrubal son of Gisco: In Carthage · since Summer 206 BC
- Mago Barca: Operating in the region of Savo and the Ligurian hills · 1st month
- Q. Fabius Maximus: In Rome · princeps senatus
- Hannibal Barca: Operating in the region of the Bruttian redoubt · 3rd year
- Publius Cornelius Scipio: Operating in the region of Forging the army in Sicily · 2nd month
- Hasdrubal Barca: fell here, June 207 BC
- M. Claudius Marcellus: fell here, June 208 BC
- Publius & Gnaeus Scipio: fell here, June 211 BC