truceless การใช้

• Polybius called it a " truceless war ", without any concept of rules of warfare and exceeding all other conflicts in cruelty, ending only with the total annihilation of one of the opponents . The conflict escalated when the mercenary leadership tortured and killed its Carthaginian prisoners and in response the Carthaginians committed similar actions.
• The "'Mercenary War "'( 240 BC  238 BC ), also called the "'Libyan War "'and the "'Truceless War "'by Polybius, was an uprising of mercenary armies formerly employed by Carthage, backed by Libyan settlements revolting against Carthaginian control.