The Battle of Himera (The Histories of Herodotus Excerpt)

Upon learning of Xerxes’ invasion of Greece, the Spartans and Athenians send envoys to treat with Gelon, tyrant of Syracuse to come to their aid. Gelon agrees on the condition that he is made overall commander of the Greek forces, given that his personal army would make up the bulk of the Greek forces.

The ancestral pride of the Spartans and Athenians will not permit this, and so Gelon refuses the envoys help from what is possibly the most powerful army in the Greek world.

However, it turns out on the very same day as the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC that the Carthaginians (the Carchedonians, in the text) invaded Sicily with “300,000 men” drawn from the Western Mediterranean.

Source: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D7%3Achapter%3D154

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