Chapter

  1 I   |           enemies to Carthage. The Mercenaries understood this, and their
  2 I   |    entrusted the government of the Mercenaries to Gisco. To appoint his
  3 I   |            Republic to submit, the Mercenaries thought that they were at
  4 I   |      Aeginusae, and he thanked the Mercenaries once more in Greek, Ligurian
  5 I   |            was more coveted by the Mercenaries. They detested the Legion
  6 I   |           awakened!” responded the Mercenaries.~After a second excursion
  7 I   |            the gateway towards the Mercenaries, he cried to them that they
  8 I   |      revived the greediness of the Mercenaries; they speedily placed fire
  9 I   |           impossible. Have not the Mercenaries already possessed Rhegium
 10 II  |            Two days afterwards the Mercenaries left Carthage.~They had
 11 II  |     Numidians remained amongst the Mercenaries. He appeared desirous of
 12 II  |         the soldiers, although the Mercenaries saluted one another in that
 13 II  |     Campanians and Balearians. The Mercenaries, recognising several of
 14 II  |         with all the crimes of the Mercenaries; their gluttony, their thefts,
 15 II  |        waves.~As to the pay of the Mercenaries it nearly filled two esparto-grass
 16 IV  |         Many of them saw a camp of Mercenaries for the first time. Instead
 17 IV  |          possible to know how many Mercenaries had been engaged, and the
 18 IV  |           trading towns taxed; the Mercenaries would grow impatient; Tunis
 19 IV  |           were about to leave, the Mercenaries plucked out their hair with
 20 IV  |     Carthage.~The bad faith of the Mercenaries was not so complete as their
 21 V   |         traces of the feast of the Mercenaries were everywhere still manifest.
 22 VI  |            he had come to join the Mercenaries, for the Republic had long
 23 VI  |            Matho speedily paid the Mercenaries their arrears, and owing
 24 VI  |       tents, while the camp of the Mercenaries was now nothing but a heap
 25 VI  |         opened through fear of the Mercenaries.~Day broke, and Matho’s
 26 VII |           Punic forces against the Mercenaries!”~“I refuse,” replied Hamilcar.~“
 27 VII |          her lovers from among the Mercenaries!”~At first he tottered,
 28 VII |           Hamilcar understood; the Mercenaries were in occupation of the
 29 VIII|          Did he intend to join the Mercenaries? The Ligurians encamped
 30 VIII|       return had not surprised the Mercenaries; according to their ideas
 31 VIII|        make a fresh beginning, the Mercenaries being further off. Again,
 32 VIII|            army the while from the Mercenaries. Owing to the horns, which
 33 VIII|            and the surprise of the Mercenaries increased when they saw
 34 VIII|            too slender line of the Mercenaries soon yielded in the centre
 35 VIII|            having waited until the Mercenaries were massed together in
 36 VIII|          forward in pursuit of the Mercenaries when Hamilcar appeared.~
 37 VIII|          done for the cause of the Mercenaries. “It was I who urged on
 38 IX  |      Hamilcar had thought that the Mercenaries would await him at Utica,
 39 IX  |           bags containing heads of Mercenaries killed, so they said, by
 40 IX  |         scarcely anything of these Mercenaries, who were men of Italiote
 41 IX  |            horsemen.~To weaken the Mercenaries the Suffet had judged it
 42 IX  |  Hippo-Zarytus were free since the Mercenaries were no longer besieging
 43 IX  |         intervals further off. The Mercenaries were worn out with fatigue;
 44 IX  |        planted; and at sunrise the Mercenaries were amazed to perceive
 45 IX  |            catapults worn out; the Mercenaries, who were ten times as numerous,
 46 IX  |      lacking for the hire of other Mercenaries. As to a levy of soldiers
 47 IX  |            to have annihilated the Mercenaries after his victory. Why had
 48 XI  |      lights, for the armies of the Mercenaries, now blended together, extended
 49 XI  |        with the common herd of the Mercenaries, ay, and so meek that I
 50 XI  |         laughs broke from him. The Mercenaries, Hamilcar, every obstacle
 51 XI  |           aged Gisco.~In fact, the Mercenaries had broken the legs of the
 52 XI  |          assisted and forsaken the Mercenaries according to the chances
 53 XII |           all that remained of the Mercenaries was a heap of wounded, dead,
 54 XII |        were already drying up. The Mercenaries might be recognised by the
 55 XII |            pikes; they saluted the Mercenaries and asked them whether they
 56 XII |            Phoenician writing. The Mercenaries were entreated not to be
 57 XII |         harangued.~He reminded the Mercenaries of the promises of the Great
 58 XII |            came that the Sardinian Mercenaries had crucified their general,
 59 XII |           very speedily joined the Mercenaries. The defeat at the Macaras
 60 XII |            the throng stopped, the Mercenaries who were posted in front
 61 XII |    preparations for the siege. The Mercenaries, taught by their defeats,
 62 XII |     ramparts. It was here that the Mercenaries’ wives, who had been driven
 63 XIII|        better. The hoplites of the Mercenaries were placed in the first
 64 XIII|        until the evening.~When the Mercenaries resumed their task on the
 65 XIII|          against the wall, and the Mercenaries mounted them in files, holding
 66 XIII|            days in succession, the Mercenaries hoping to triumph by extraordinary
 67 XIII|       hands, burn the works of the Mercenaries, and then mount up again.~
 68 XIII|     massacred them freely; and the Mercenaries rejoiced at it, no doubt
 69 XIII|         journey to the camp of the Mercenaries. He even asked her whether
 70 XIII|           out for the Gauls to buy Mercenaries there at no matter what
 71 XIII|           terrace was wanting, the Mercenaries came up in serried cohorts,
 72 XIII|            along the gulf with the Mercenaries, near the lagoon with the
 73 XIII|          that six thousand Gaulish Mercenaries were coming, and that the
 74 XIV |       scorned the overtures of the Mercenaries in Sardinian, and would
 75 XIV |            It was felt that if the Mercenaries triumphed, every one, from
 76 XIV |   therefore succeeded. None of the Mercenaries knew the mountain, and,
 77 XIV | examination of the provisions. The Mercenaries, whose baggage was lost,
 78 XIV |       serving-men belonging to the Mercenaries. They killed some of them
 79 XIV |         Libya, the youngest of the Mercenaries and whole tribes—in all
 80 XIV |           But he required that ten Mercenaries, chosen by himself, should
 81 XIV |         and the ambassadors of the Mercenaries, it is you whom I choose
 82 XIV |            hundred of the stoutest Mercenaries, Etruscans, Libyans, and
 83 XIV |        Suffet’s partiality for the Mercenaries.~Did he yield to these outbursts
 84 XIV |           hid the horizon from the Mercenaries) he showed them the one
 85 XIV |      trouble himself about it. The Mercenaries once annihilated, the Nomads
 86 XIV |           triumphed alone over the Mercenaries it would be impossible to
 87 XIV |        victory to be gained by the Mercenaries, in order to return. But,
 88 XIV |        population, twelve thousand Mercenaries, and, in addition, all the
 89 XIV |           wished first to show the Mercenaries that he would punish them
 90 XIV |       Barca too weak to resist the Mercenaries? Was it a piece of treachery
 91 XIV |           the ambassadors from the Mercenaries were in their last throes.~
 92 XIV |        elephants came out; but the Mercenaries advanced through the plain
 93 XIV |       Barca came up.~The exhausted Mercenaries could not withstand his
 94 XIV |            morrow the tents of the Mercenaries were seen on the mountain
 95 XIV |        sorts of artifices; and the Mercenaries were hunted, repulsed, and
 96 XIV |           the plain of Rhades.~The Mercenaries wished to know whether he
 97 XIV |          and sent them against the Mercenaries.~Those cone-shaped masses
 98 XIV |     stretched upon the plain; some Mercenaries snatched away their armour,
 99 XIV |          invincible courage of the Mercenaries.~But a great noise of tabourines
100 XIV |     populace was exterminating the Mercenaries.~The latter had taken refuge
101 XIV |         the fight began again. The Mercenaries would often let them approach,
102 XV  |        recalled the banquet of the Mercenaries; they gave themselves up