Aegatēs Insulae
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Aegatēs Insulae
Aegatēs Insulae, islands off Lilybaeum in Sicily, near which was fought in 241 BC the naval battle in which C. Lutatius Catulus, the Roman admiral, defeated the Carthaginian fleet, so terminating the First Punic War.
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