Hanno

Those most famous mariners were well acquainted with that sea, because Hanno, when Carthage was at the height of her power, sailing from Cadiz to the farthest confines of Arabia, and doubling the promontory now known as the Cape of Good Hope (the ancient name seems to have been Hyperion Ceras), described in a book the entire route he had taken, the appearance of the coasts, and the location of the …

Poenos autem, qui re maritima plurimum valuerunt, eum Oceanum non ignorasse longe clarissimum est, cum Hanno Carthaginis potentia florente circumvectus a Gadibus ad finem Arabiae, praeternavigato scilicet promontorio quod nunc Bonae Spei dicitur, (vetus videtur nomen Hesperion ceras fuisse) omne id iter, situmque litoris et insularum scripto complexus sit, testatusque ad ultimum non mare sibi, sed commeatum defuisse.

\"Anacharsis to Hanno, greeting.

And the Carthaginians—Hanno made them Libyans instead of Tyrians, made them dwell in Libya instead of Phoenicia, and possess much wealth and many trading-posts and harbors and triremes, and rule over much land and much sea.

And so likewise the Romans might perhaps call Numa their daimon, the Carthaginians Hanno and Hannibal, the Macedonians Alexander or Philip—who made the Macedonians, lowly and weak as they were, and after his father had ceded the rule to the Olynthians, strong and warlike and masters of well-nigh all Europe.

In the same manner Solinus also calls Hanno King of the Carthaginians.