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Hippocrates of Syracuse Hippocrates (Ἱπποκράτης) was a Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War. He was the older brother of Epicydes, with whom he ruled over Syracuse from 214 BC to 212 BC.

Though his family was of Syracusan origins, he was born and raised in Carthage, where his grandfather had been banished to after being accused of assassinating Agathocles. His mother was a Carthaginian.

Hippocrates and Epicydes served in the arm y of Hannibal and were sent as envoys to Syracuse, where they succeeded in convincing the tyrant Hieronymus to abandon the Syracusan alliance with the Romans. When Hieronymus was killed, the brothers were able to get themselves elected as the leaders of the city, replacing Andranodorus and Themistus