He intended first to wink4 at the revolt of the tribes and to detach them all from the cause of the Barbarians5; then when they were quite isolated7 in the midst of the provinces he would fall upon them and exterminate8 them.
In fourteen days he pacified9 the region comprised between Thouccaber and Utica, with the towns of Tignicabah, Tessourah, Vacca, and others further to the west. Zounghar built in the mountains, Assoura celebrated10 for its temple, Djeraado fertile in junipers, Thapitis, and Hagour sent embassies to him. The country people came with their hands full of provisions, implored12 his protection, kissed his feet and those of the soldiers, and complained of the Barbarians. Some came to offer him bags containing heads of Mercenaries killed, so they said, by themselves, but which they had cut off corpses14; for many had lost themselves in their flight, and were found dead here and there beneath the olive trees and among the vines.
On the morrow of his victory, Hamilcar, to dazzle the people, had sent to Carthage the two thousand captives taken on the battlefield. They arrived in long companies of one hundred men each, all with their arms fastened behind their backs with a bar of bronze which caught them at the nape of the neck, and the wounded, bleeding as they still were, running also along; horsemen followed them, driving them on with blows of the whip.
Then there was a delirium17 of joy! People repeated that there were six thousand Barbarians killed; the others would not hold out, and the war was finished; they embraced one another in the streets, and rubbed the faces of the Pataec Gods with butter and cinnamomum to thank them. These, with their big eyes, their big bodies, and their arms raised as high as the shoulder, seemed to live beneath their freshened paint, and to participate in the cheerfulness of the people. The rich left their doors open; the city resounded18 with the noise of the timbrels; the temples were illuminated19 every night, and the servants of the goddess went down to Malqua and set up stages of sycamore-wood at the corners of the cross-ways, and prostituted themselves there. Lands were voted to the conquerors20, holocausts21 to Melkarth, three hundred gold crowns to the Suffet, and his partisans22 proposed to decree to him new prerogatives23 and honours.
He had begged the Ancients to make overtures24 to Autaritus for exchanging all the Barbarians, if necessary, for the aged25 Gisco, and the other Carthaginians detained like him. The Libyans and Nomads26 composing the army under Autaritus knew scarcely anything of these Mercenaries, who were men of Italiote or Greek race; and the offer by the Republic of so many Barbarians for so few Carthaginians, showed that the value of the former was nothing and that of the latter considerable. They dreaded27 a snare28. Autaritus refused.
Then the Ancients decreed the execution of the captives, although the Suffet had written to them not to put them to death. He reckoned upon incorporating the best of them with his own troops and of thus instigating29 defections. But hatred30 swept away all circumspection31.
The two thousand Barbarians were tied to the stelae of the tombs in the Mappalian quarter; and traders, scullions, embroiderers, and even women — the widows of the dead with their children — all who would, came to kill them with arrows. They aimed slowly at them, the better to prolong their torture, lowering the weapon and then raising it in turn; and the multitude pressed forward howling. Paralytics had themselves brought thither32 in hand-barrows; many took the precaution of bringing their food, and remained on the spot until the evening; others passed the night there. Tents had been set up in which drinking went on. Many gained large sums by hiring out bows.
Then all these crucified corpses were left upright, looking like so many red statues on the tombs, and the excitement even spread to the people of Malqua, who were the descendants of the aboriginal33 families, and were usually indifferent to the affairs of their country. Out of gratitude34 for the pleasure it had been giving them they now interested themselves in its fortunes, and felt that they were Carthaginians, and the Ancients thought it a clever thing to have thus blended the entire people in a single act of vengeance35.
The sanction of the gods was not wanting; for crows alighted from all quarters of the sky. They wheeled in the air as they flew with loud hoarse36 cries, and formed a huge cloud rolling continually upon itself. It was seen from Clypea, Rhades, and the promontory37 of Hermaeum. Sometimes it would suddenly burst asunder38, its black spirals extending far away, as an eagle clove39 the centre of it, and then departed again; here and there on the terraces the domes40, the peaks of the obelisks41, and the pediments of the temples there were big birds holding human fragments in their reddened beaks42.
Owing to the smell the Carthaginians resigned themselves to unbind the corpses. A few of them were burnt; the rest were thrown into the sea, and the waves, driven by the north wind, deposited them on the shore at the end of the gulf43 before the camp of Autaritus.
This punishment had no doubt terrified the Barbarians, for from the top of Eschmoun they could be seen striking their tents, collecting their flocks, and hoisting44 their baggage upon asses45, and on the evening of the same day the entire army withdrew.
It was to march to and fro between the mountain of the Hot Springs and Hippo-Zarytus, and so debar the Suffet from approaching the Tyrian towns, and from the possibility of a return to Carthage.
Meanwhile the two other armies were to try to overtake him in the south, Spendius in the east, and Matho in the west, in such a way that all three should unite to surprise and entangle46 him. Then they received a reinforcement which they had not looked for: Narr’ Havas appeared with three hundred camels laden47 with bitumen48, twenty-five elephants, and six thousand horsemen.
To weaken the Mercenaries the Suffet had judged it prudent49 to occupy his attention at a distance in his own kingdom. From the heart of Carthage he had come to an understanding with Masgaba, a Gaetulian brigand50 who was seeking to found an empire. Strengthened by Punic money, the adventurer had raised the Numidian States with promises of freedom. But Narr’ Havas, warned by his nurse’s son, had dropped into Cirta, poisoned the conquerors with the water of the cisterns51, struck off a few heads, set all right again, and had just arrived against the Suffet more furious than the Barbarians.
The chiefs of the four armies concerted the arrangements for the war. It would be a long one, and everything must be foreseen.
It was agreed first to entreat52 the assistance of the Romans, and this mission was offered to Spendius, but as a fugitive53 he dared not undertake it. Twelve men from the Greek colonies embarked54 at Annaba in a sloop55 belonging to the Numidians. Then the chiefs exacted an oath of complete obedience56 from all the Barbarians. Every day the captains inspected clothes and boots; the sentries57 were even forbidden to use a shield, for they would often lean it against their lance and fall asleep as they stood; those who had any baggage trailing after them were obliged to get rid of it; everything was to be carried, in Roman fashion, on the back. As a precaution against the elephants Matho instituted a corps13 of cataphract cavalry58, men and horses being hidden beneath cuirasses of hippopotamus59 skin bristling60 with nails; and to protect the horses’ hoofs61 boots of plaited esparto-grass were made for them.
It was forbidden to pillage62 the villages, or to tyrannise over the inhabitants who were not of Punic race. But as the country was becoming exhausted63, Matho ordered the provisions to be served out to the soldiers individually, without troubling about the women. At first the men shared with them. Many grew weak for lack of food. It was the occasion of many quarrels and invectives, many drawing away the companions of the rest by the bait or even by the promise of their own portion. Matho commanded them all to be driven away pitilessly. They took refuge in the camp of Autaritus; but the Gaulish and Libyan women forced them by their outrageous64 treatment to depart.
At last they came beneath the walls of Carthage to implore11 the protection of Ceres and Proserpine, for in Byrsa there was a temple with priests consecrated65 to these goddesses in expiation66 of the horrors formerly67 committed at the siege of Syracuse. The Syssitia, alleging68 their right to waifs and strays, claimed the youngest in order to sell them; and some fair Lacedaemonian women were taken by New Carthaginians in marriage.
A few persisted in following the armies. They ran on the flank of the syntagmata by the side of the captains. They called to their husbands, pulled them by the cloak, cursed them as they beat their breasts, and held out their little naked and weeping children at arm’s length. The sight of them was unmanning the Barbarians; they were an embarrassment69 and a peril70. Several times they were repulsed71, but they came back again; Matho made the horsemen belonging to Narr’ Havas charge them with the point of the lance; and on some Balearians shouting out to him that they must have women, he replied: “I have none!”
Just now he was invaded by the genius of Moloch. In spite of the rebellion of his conscience, he performed terrible deeds, imagining that he was thus obeying the voice of a god. When he could not ravage72 the fields, Matho would cast stones into them to render them sterile73.
He urged Autaritus and Spendius with repeated messages to make haste. But the Suffet’s operations were incomprehensible. He encamped at Eidous, Monchar, and Tehent successively; some scouts74 believed that they saw him in the neighbourhood of Ischiil, near the frontiers of Narr’ Havas, and it was reported that he had crossed the river above Tebourba as though to return to Carthage. Scarcely was he in one place when he removed to another. The routes that he followed always remained unknown. The Suffet preserved his advantages without offering battle, and while pursued by the Barbarians seemed to be leading them.
These marches and counter marches were still more fatiguing75 to the Carthaginians, and Hamilcar’s forces, receiving no reinforcements, diminished from day to day. The country people were now more backward in bringing him provisions. In every direction he encountered taciturn hesitation76 and hatred; and in spite of his entreaties77 to the Great Council no succour came from Carthage.
It was said, perhaps it was believed, that he had need of none. It was a trick, or his complaints were unnecessary; and Hanno’s partisans, in order to do him an ill turn, exaggerated the importance of his victory. The troops which he commanded he was welcome to; but they were not going to supply his demands continually in that way. The war was quite burdensome enough! it had cost too much, and from pride the patricians79 belonging to his faction80 supported him but slackly.
Then Hamilcar, despairing of the Republic, took by force from the tribes all that he wanted for the war — grain, oil, wood, cattle, and men. But the inhabitants were not long in taking flight. The villages passed through were empty, and the cabins were ransacked81 without anything being discerned in them. The Punic army was soon encompassed82 by a terrible solitude83.
The Carthaginians, who were furious, began to sack the provinces; they filled up the cisterns and fired the houses. The sparks, being carried by the wind, were scattered84 far off, and whole forests were on fire on the mountains; they bordered the valleys with a crown of flames, and it was often necessary to wait in order to pass beyond them. Then the soldiers resumed their march over the warm ashes in the full glare of the sun.
Sometimes they would see what looked like the eyes of a tiger cat gleaming in a bush by the side of the road. This was a Barbarian6 crouching85 upon his heels, and smeared86 with dust, that he might not be distinguished87 from the colour of the foliage88; or perhaps when passing along a ravine those on the wings would suddenly hear the rolling of stones, and raising their eyes would perceive a bare-footed man bounding along through the openings of the gorge89.
Meanwhile Utica and Hippo-Zarytus were free since the Mercenaries were no longer besieging90 them. Hamilcar commanded them to come to his assistance. But not caring to compromise themselves, they answered him with vague words, with compliments and excuses.
He went up again abruptly92 into the North, determined93 to open up one of the Tyrian towns, though he were obliged to lay siege to it. He required a station on the coast, so as to be able to draw supplies and men from the islands or from Cyrene, and he coveted94 the harbour of Utica as being the nearest to Carthage.
The Suffet therefore left Zouitin and turned the lake of Hippo-Zarytus with circumspection. But he was soon obliged to lengthen95 out his regiments96 into column in order to climb the mountain which separates the two valleys. They were descending97 at sunset into its hollow, funnel-shaped summit, when they perceived on the level of the ground before them bronze she-wolves which seemed to be running across the grass.
Suddenly large plumes98 arose and a terrible song burst forth99, accompanied by the rhythm of flutes100. It was the army under Spendius; for some Campanians and Greeks, in their execration101 of Carthage, had assumed the ensigns of Rome. At the same time long pikes, shields of leopard’s skin, linen102 cuirasses, and naked shoulders were seen on the left. These were the Iberians under Matho, the Lusitanians, Balearians, and Gaetulians; the horses of Narr’ Havas were heard to neigh; they spread around the hill; then came the loose rabble103 commanded by Autaritus — Gauls, Libyans, and Nomads; while the Eaters of Uncleanness might be recognised among them by the fish bones which they wore in their hair.
Thus the Barbarians, having contrived104 their marches with exactness, had come together again. But themselves surprised, they remained motionless for some minutes in consultation105.
The Suffet had collected his men into an orbicular mass, in such a way as to offer an equal resistance in every direction. The infantry106 were surrounded by their tall, pointed107 shields fixed108 close to one another in the turf. The Clinabarians were outside and the elephants at intervals109 further off. The Mercenaries were worn out with fatigue110; it was better to wait till next day; and the Barbarians feeling sure of their victory occupied themselves the whole night in eating.
They lighted large bright fires, which, while dazzling themselves, left the Punic army below them in the shade. Hamilcar caused a trench111 fifteen feet broad and ten cubits deep to be dug in Roman fashion round his camp, and the earth thrown out to be raised on the inside into a parapet, on which sharp interlacing stakes were planted; and at sunrise the Mercenaries were amazed to perceive all the Carthaginians thus entrenched112 as if in a fortress113.
They could recognise Hamilcar in the midst of the tents walking about and giving orders. His person was clad in a brown cuirass cut in little scales; he was followed by his horse, and stopped from time to time to point out something with his right arm outstretched.
Then more than one recalled similar mornings when, amid the din1 of clarions, he passed slowly before them, and his looks strengthened them like cups of wine. A kind of emotion overcame them. Those, on the contrary, who were not acquainted with Hamilcar, were mad with joy at having caught him.
Nevertheless if all attacked at once they would do one another mutual114 injury in the insufficiency of space. The Numidians might dash through; but the Clinabarians, who were protected by cuirasses, would crush them. And then how were the palisades to be crossed? As to the elephants, they were not sufficiently115 well trained.
“You are all cowards!” exclaimed Matho.
And with the best among them he rushed against the entrenchment116. They were repulsed by a volley of stones; for the Suffet had taken their abandoned catapults on the bridge.
This want of success produced an abrupt91 change in the fickle117 minds of the Barbarians. Their extreme bravery disappeared; they wished to conquer, but with the smallest possible risk. According to Spendius they ought to maintain carefully the position that they held, and starve out the Punic army. But the Carthaginians began to dig wells, and as there were mountains surrounding the hill, they discovered water.
From the summit of their palisade they launched arrows, earth, dung, and pebbles118 which they gathered from the ground, while the six catapults rolled incessantly119 throughout the length of the terrace.
But the springs would dry up of themselves; the provisions would be exhausted, and the catapults worn out; the Mercenaries, who were ten times as numerous, would triumph in the end. The Suffet devised negotiations120 so as to gain time, and one morning the Barbarians found a sheep’s skin covered with writing within their lines. He justified121 himself for his victory: the Ancients had forced him into the war, and to show them that he was keeping his word, he offered them the pillaging122 of Utica or Hippo-Zarytus at their choice; in conclusion, Hamilcar declared that he did not fear them because he had won over some traitors123, and thanks to them would easily manage the rest.
The Barbarians were disturbed: this proposal of immediate3 booty made them consider; they were apprehensive124 of treachery, not suspecting a snare in the Suffet’s boasting, and they began to look upon one another with mistrust. Words and steps were watched; terrors awaked them in the night. Many forsook125 their companions and chose their army as fancy dictated126, and the Gauls with Autaritus went and joined themselves with the men of Cisalpine Gaul, whose language they understood.
The four chiefs met together every evening in Matho’s tent, and squatting127 round a shield, attentively128 moved backwards129 and forwards the little wooden figures invented by Pyrrhus for the representation of manoeuvres. Spendius would demonstrate Hamilcar’s resources, and with oaths by all the gods entreat that the opportunity should not be wasted. Matho would walk about angry and gesticulating. The war against Carthage was his own personal affair; he was indignant that the others should interfere130 in it without being willing to obey him. Autaritus would divine his speech from his countenance131 and applaud. Narr’ Havas would elevate his chin to mark his disdain132; there was not a measure he did not consider fatal; and he had ceased to smile. Sighs would escape him as though he were thrusting back sorrow for an impossible dream, despair for an abortive133 enterprise.
While the Barbarians deliberated in uncertainty134, the Suffet increased his defences: he had a second trench dug within the palisades, a second wall raised, and wooden towers constructed at the corners; and his slaves went as far as the middle of the outposts to drive caltrops into the ground. But the elephants, whose allowances were lessened135, struggled in their shackles136. To economise the grass he ordered the Clinabarians to kill the least strong among the stallions. A few refused to do so, and he had them decapitated. The horses were eaten. The recollection of this fresh meat was a source of great sadness to them in the days that followed.
From the bottom of the ampitheatre in which they were confined they could see the four bustling137 camps of the Barbarians all around them on the heights. Women moved about with leathern bottles on their heads, goats strayed bleating138 beneath the piles of pikes; sentries were being relieved, and eating was going on around tripods. In fact, the tribes furnished them abundantly with provisions, and they did not themselves suspect how much their inaction alarmed the Punic army.
On the second day the Carthaginians had remarked a troop of three hundred men apart from the rest in the camp of the nomads. These were the rich who had been kept prisoners since the beginning of the war. Some Libyans ranged them along the edge of the trench, took their station behind them, and hurled139 javelins140, making themselves a rampart of their bodies. The wretched creatures could scarcely be recognised, so completely were their faces covered with vermin and filth141. Their hair had been plucked out in places, leaving bare the ulcers142 on their heads, and they were so lean and hideous143 that they were like mummies in tattered144 shrouds145. A few trembled and sobbed146 with a stupid look; the rest cried out to their friends to fire upon the Barbarians. There was one who remained quite motionless with face cast down, and without speaking; his long white beard fell to his chain-covered hands; and the Carthaginians, feeling as it were the downfall of the Republic in the bottom of their hearts, recognised Gisco. Although the place was a dangerous one they pressed forward to see him. On his head had been placed a grotesque147 tiara of hippopotamus leather incrusted with pebbles. It was Autaritus’s idea; but it was displeasing148 to Matho.
Hamilcar in exasperation149, and resolved to cut his way through in one way or another, had the palisades opened; and the Carthaginians went at a furious rate half way up the hill or three hundred paces. Such a flood of Barbarians descended150 upon them that they were driven back to their lines. One of the guards of the Legion who had remained outside was stumbling among the stones. Zarxas ran up to him, knocked him down, and plunged151 a dagger152 into his throat; he drew it out, threw himself upon the wound — and gluing his lips to it with mutterings of joy, and startings which shook him to the heels, pumped up the blood by breastfuls; then he quietly sat down upon the corpse15, raised his face with his neck thrown back the better to breathe in the air, like a hind16 that has just drunk at a mountain stream, and in a shrill153 voice began to sing a Balearic song, a vague melody full of prolonged modulations, with interruptions and alternations like echoes answering one another in the mountains; he called upon his dead brothers and invited them to a feast; — then he let his hands fall between his legs, slowly bent154 his head, and wept. This atrocious occurrence horrified155 the Barbarians, especially the Greeks.
From that time forth the Carthaginians did not attempt to make any sally; and they had no thought of surrender, certain as they were that they would perish in tortures.
Nevertheless the provisions, in spite of Hamilcar’s carefulness, diminished frightfully. There was not left per man more than ten k’hommers of wheat, three hins of millet156, and twelve betzas of dried fruit. No more meat, no more oil, no more salt food, and not a grain of barley157 for the horses, which might be seen stretching down their wasted necks seeking in the dust for blades of trampled158 straw. Often the sentries on vedette upon the terrace would see in the moonlight a dog belonging to the Barbarians coming to prowl beneath the entrenchment among the heaps of filth; it would be knocked down with a stone, and then, after a descent had been effected along the palisades by means of the straps159 of a shield, it would be eaten without a word. Sometimes horrible barkings would be heard and the man would not come up again. Three phalangites, in the fourth dilochia of the twelfth syntagmata, killed one another with knives in a dispute about a rat.
All regretted their families, and their houses; the poor their hive-shaped huts, with the shells on the threshold and the hanging net, and the patricians their large halls filled with bluish shadows, where at the most indolent hour of the day they used to rest listening to the vague noise of the streets mingled160 with the rustling161 of the leaves as they stirred in their gardens; — to go deeper into the thought of this, and to enjoy it more, they would half close their eyelids162, only to be roused by the shock of a wound. Every minute there was some engagement, some fresh alarm; the towers were burning, the Eaters of Uncleanness were leaping across the palisades; their hands would be struck off with axes; others would hasten up; an iron hail would fall upon the tents. Galleries of rushen hurdles163 were raised as a protection against the projectiles164. The Carthaginians shut themselves up within them and stirred out no more.
Every day the sun coming over the hill used, after the early hours, to forsake165 the bottom of the gorge and leave them in the shade. The grey slopes of the ground, covered with flints spotted166 with scanty167 lichen168, ascended169 in front and in the rear, and above their summits stretched the sky in its perpetual purity, smoother and colder to the eye than a metal cupola. Hamilcar was so indignant with Carthage that he felt inclined to throw himself among the Barbarians and lead them against her. Moreover, the porters, sutlers, and slaves were beginning to murmur170, while neither people, nor Great Council, nor any one sent as much as a hope. The situation was intolerable, especially owing to the thought that it would become worse.
At the news of the disaster Carthage had leaped, as it were, with anger and hate; the Suffet would have been less execrated171 if he had allowed himself to be conquered from the first.
But time and money were lacking for the hire of other Mercenaries. As to a levy172 of soldiers in the town, how were they to be equipped? Hamilcar had taken all the arms! and then who was to command them? The best captains were down yonder with him! Meanwhile, some men despatched by the Suffet arrived in the streets with shouts. The Great Council were roused by them, and contrived to make them disappear.
It was an unnecessary precaution; every one accused Barca of having behaved with slackness. He ought to have annihilated173 the Mercenaries after his victory. Why had he ravaged174 the tribes? The sacrifices already imposed had been heavy enough! and the patricians deplored175 their contributions of fourteen shekels, and the Syssitia their two hundred and twenty-three thousand gold kikars; those who had given nothing lamented176 like the rest. The populace was jealous of the New Carthaginians, to whom he had promised full rights of citizenship177; and even the Ligurians, who had fought with such intrepidity178, were confounded with the Barbarians and cursed like them; their race became a crime, the proof of complicity. The traders on the threshold of their shops, the workmen passing plumb-line in hand, the vendors179 of pickle180 rinsing181 their baskets, the attendants in the vapour baths and the retailers182 of hot drinks all discussed the operations of the campaign. They would trace battle-plans with their fingers in the dust, and there was not a sorry rascal183 to be found who could not have corrected Hamilcar’s mistakes.
It was a punishment, said the priests, for his long-continued impiety184. He had offered no holocausts; he had not purified his troops; he had even refused to take augurs185 with him; and the scandal of sacrilege strengthened the violence of restrained hate, and the rage of betrayed hopes. People recalled the Sicilian disasters, and all the burden of his pride that they had borne for so long! The colleges of the pontiffs could not forgive him for having seized their treasure, and they demanded a pledge from the Great Council to crucify him should he ever return.
The heats of the month of Eloul, which were excessive in that year, were another calamity186. Sickening smells rose from the borders of the Lake, and were wafted187 through the air together with the fumes188 of the aromatics189 that eddied190 at the corners of the streets. The sounds of hymns191 were constantly heard. Crowds of people occupied the staircases of the temples; all the walls were covered with black veils; tapers192 burnt on the brows of the Pataec Gods, and the blood of camels slain193 for sacrifice ran along the flights of stairs forming red cascades194 upon the steps. Carthage was agitated195 with funereal196 delirium. From the depths of the narrowest lanes, and the blackest dens78, there issued pale faces, men with viper-like profiles and grinding their teeth. The houses were filled with the women’s piercing shrieks197, which, escaping through the gratings, caused those who stood talking in the squares to turn round. Sometimes it was thought that the Barbarians were arriving; they had been seen behind the mountain of the Hot Springs; they were encamped at Tunis; and the voices would multiply and swell198, and be blended into one single clamour. Then universal silence would reign199, some remaining where they had climbed upon the frontals of the buildings, screening their eyes with their open hand, while the rest lay flat on their faces at the foot of the ramparts straining their ears. When their terror had passed off their anger would begin again. But the conviction of their own impotence would soon sink them into the same sadness as before.
It increased every evening when all ascended the terraces, and bowing down nine times uttered a loud cry in salutation of the sun, as it sank slowly behind the lagoon200, and then suddenly disappeared among the mountains in the direction of the Barbarians.
They were waiting for the thrice holy festival when, from the summit of a funeral pile, an eagle flew heavenwards as a symbol of the resurrection of the year, and a message from the people to their Baal; they regarded it as a sort of union, a method of connecting themselves with the might of the Sun. Moreover, filled as they now were with hatred, they turned frankly201 towards homicidal Moloch, and all forsook Tanith. In fact, Rabetna, having lost her veil, was as if she had been despoiled202 of part of her virtue203. She denied the beneficence of her waters, she had abandoned Carthage; she was a deserter, an enemy. Some threw stones at her to insult her. But many pitied her while they inveighed204 against her; she was still beloved, and perhaps more deeply than she had been.
All their misfortunes came, therefore, from the loss of the zaimph. Salammbo had indirectly205 participated in it; she was included in the same ill will; she must be punished. A vague idea of immolation206 spread among the people. To appease207 the Baalim it was without doubt necessary to offer them something of incalculable worth, a being handsome, young, virgin208, of old family, a descendant of the gods, a human star. Every day the gardens of Megara were invaded by strange men; the slaves, trembling on their own account, dared not resist them. Nevertheless, they did not pass beyond the galley209 staircase. They remained below with their eyes raised to the highest terrace; they were waiting for Salammbo, and they would cry out for hours against her like dogs baying at the moon.
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