apr 6, 264 BC - 264 BC - Hiero II joins Hanno's Carthaginians to fight stalemate battle against Mamertines and Rome under consul Appius Claudius Caudex

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In 264 BC he again returned to the attack, and the Mamertines called in the aid of Rome.[2] Hiero at once joined the Punic leader Hanno, who had recently landed in Sicily; but fighting a battle to an inconclusive outcome with the Romans led by the consul Appius Claudius Caudex, he withdrew to Syracuse.[3]

Pressed by the Roman forces, in 263 he concluded a treaty with Rome, by which he was to rule over the south-east of Sicily and the eastern coast as far as Tauromenium.[3]

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