 Contemporary accounts do not report either side's losses, and modern historians consider later claims of 20,000–30,000 Carthaginian casualties improbable.Encouraged by their victory at Panormus, the Romans moved against the main Carthaginian base on Sicily, Lilybaeum, in 249 BC.A large army commanded by the year's consuls Publius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Junius Pullus besieged the city.