Instead of facing the army which besieged Syracuse, he decided to start an unexpected and risky attack on his enemy's home soil, Libya.

[1] With sixty triremes Agathocles managed to escape a Carthaginian blockade of Syracuse in August 310 BC.

Additionally, he no longer needed to leave a part of his force to guard the ships and precluded their capture by the Carthaginians.

[7] The council of elders appointed two Carthaginian rivals, Hanno and Bomilcar, as the generals of an army to defeat Agathocles.

According to Diodorus Siculus, Bomilcar wanted to exploit this event to get rid of his rival and seize power in Carthage for himself.

Diodorus Siculus attributes this to his desire to see the Carthaginian citizens defeated, which would enable him to seize power in Carthage.

They sent a large sum of money and other expensive offerings to their mother city Tyre as a sacrifice to Melqart.

After fortifying his camp at White Tunis and leaving an adequate garrison there, he subjugated the cities along the coast.

After Agathocles laid siege to Hadrumetum for a short time, Aelymas, the king of the Libyans, made an alliance with him.

The Carthaginians used Agathocles' absence to attack White Tunis, capturing his camp and besieging the city.

He set up a ruse for both his enemies by making his soldiers light a large number of fires at night.

After he had gained control of all the cities and towns in the vicinity of Carthage, which numbered over two hundred, he planned to lead his army further into the interior of Libya.

A few days after Agathocles had departed for Libya's inland regions, the Carthaginians again laid siege to White Tunis with their reinforcements.

When this news reached Agathocles he turned back, marched at night and made a surprise attack on the Carthaginian besiegers at dawn.