Hamilcar
2. Brother of Gisco [GISCO, No. 2], is mentioned only by Polyaenus (5.11), who states that, after having distinguished himself greatly in the conduct of wars in Africa, he was accused of aiming at the tyranny, and put to death. There is, however, much reason to suspect Polyaenus of some mistake in this matter.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.