By contrast, the armies of Carthage were largely made up of mercenaries. It's not unlikely that these dead guys had served Carthage before, and that the victorious Carthaginian forces had members who had formerly fought for Himera.
It’s fascinating the extent to which mercenaries played an enormous though underreported role in some of history’s most significant conflicts. I’ve been reading a lot lately about the history of Spain and the centuries-long reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Muslims by the Christians. The over-simplified narrative has always been Jihadists vs. Crusaders. But the truth is far more nuanced. You had periods when Christian mercenaries fought alongside Muslim emirs who paid well