248 BC

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Year of the Water Buffalo癸丑( at the beginning of the year, water - rat壬子)

Syria: 64/65 ( the year in October )

Events

• After the battle of Drepana the First Punic War comes to Sicily to a war of position in which the exhausted parties dare no major battles.
• Plunder the Carthaginian fleet under Carthalo against southern Italian ports.
• The Romans close with Hiero II of Syracuse, a permanent treaty of alliance.

• Year ( 3rd century BC)
• 248 BC