HASDRUBAL. Of the bearers of this very common Carthaginian name the most famous are the following :- of consolidating the Carthaginian power in Spain,he founded New Carthage as the Spanish capital, and married the daughter of a Spanish chief. His kindly and generous manner attached the natives to him, and brought many over to the Carthaginian alliance. In 221 he fell by the hand of an assassin, The account given of him by Polybius is much more favourable and far more trustworthy than that of the Roman an thor Fabius whom lie refers to.