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   1 I   |          minds of the people with the 3200 Euboic talents exacted by
   2 VII |          understanding honoured these abaddirs, which had fallen from the
   3 XIV |               sacrileges, so that the abasement of the Punic Gods might
   4 II  |             of the Barbarians did not abate. They remembered that several
   5 XIII|           Hamilcar came to be greatly abhorred.~On the morrow he opened
   6 I   |             Carthaginian dish held in abhorrence among other nations. Surprise
   7 XIII|         beside him perceived a man of abject appearance, one of the wretches
   8 XIV |             they dreamed of even more abominable sacrileges, so that the
   9 VII |             from Bactriana to prevent abortions, and horns of Ammon, which
  10 IX  |      impossible dream, despair for an abortive enterprise.~While the Barbarians
  11 IV  |               so narrow that four men abreast jostled one another in it.
  12 XIII|         completely forgotten that the absence of her pontiffs had not
  13 XI  |             and he had even expressly absented himself in order to evade
  14 III |           dead.~She had grown up with abstinences, fastings and purifications,
  15 VIII|           promise;—a hope by no means absurd, so deep was the abyss between
  16 XIII|                But the springs of the Acarnanian slings had broken from use,
  17 XIV |            Artifices were employed to accelerate their death; the last remnant
  18 VII |           scorn of death and of every accident. When he rose he was filled
  19 XIV |           with even more enthusiastic acclamations than on the first occasion.
  20 VI  |             from one another so as to accommodate the various societies separately.
  21 XIII|              of their motion with its accompanying blood and shrieks.~By degrees
  22 XIV |             were walled up. Their old accomplices, the populations who had
  23 I   |            all the returning bands to accumulate in the town. Gisco, their
  24 VII |               and as he perceived the accumulation of his riches he became
  25 I   |              as if it contained vague accumulations, like the gigantic billows
  26 II  |            were convinced that he was accurately reporting the Suffet’s speech.
  27 VII |           Carthage, have lied in your accusation of my daughter! And I, Hamilcar
  28 VIII|               as a precaution against accusations he demanded the Suffet Hanno
  29 XII |            who eat grass-hoppers; the Achyrmachidae, who eat lice; and the vermilion-painted
  30 XII |       Carthaginians? Spendius made no acknowledgement of his terror, and persisted
  31 VI  |              a great deal in order to acquire strength, while others who
  32 VI  |     mysterious manner in which he had acquired it was sufficient in the
  33 XIV |             before Carthage!~Then the actions multiplied. Fortune remained
  34 XI  |            repugnance increased in so acute a fashion that Salammbo
  35 IV  |          horses, while their victims, addicted as they were to peaceful
  36 II  |            still more loudly, thereby adding to the din.~Suddenly a man
  37 XIV |         thousand Mercenaries, and, in addition, all the Eaters of Uncleanness,
  38 VII |            vermilion on her lips gave additional whiteness to her teeth,
  39 VI  |             ten thousand horses. If I address myself to you, Matho, it
  40 XII |                By means of signs they addressed the same protestations to
  41 II  |      hesitated; he trembled; at last, addressing the Libyans who were the
  42 XV  |               tumult prevailed below. Adjacent streets were discharging
  43 VI  |            one had such experience in administrative affairs.~He decreed the
  44 VII |            chiefs of the Syssitia and administrators, triumphed over them in
  45 VII |         marine Suffet might enter the admiral’s house. So long as there
  46 XIV |    unconditionally, so greatly did he admire their bravery. They could
  47 VIII|            pusillanimous look; and he admitted those of ill-repute, the
  48 V   |              with the first fruits of adolescence in the shape of beards and
  49 XII |           what decision should now be adopted.~Hamilcar closed the road
  50 VI  |             purpose that they did not adore the stars; if a constellation
  51 II  |      equipment of the vessels, at the adornment of the Syssitia, while the
  52 XIII|              the Iarbal of Libya, the Adramelech of Chaldaea, the Kijun of
  53 VII |              indignant he might be at adulterations made to his own prejudice,
  54 VI  |           gold dust, and considerable advances of grain had been exacted
  55 IX  |      Strengthened by Punic money, the adventurer had raised the Numidian
  56 IV  |           that it was he, the eternal adversary of the Suffet Hanno, who
  57 VI  |               of the gods it would be advisable to sacrifice a man.~“Keep
  58 X   |               old Tanith in the third aedicule near the emerald vine. At
  59 V   |            order to find some outlet.~Aedicules of different shapes were
  60 I   |            taken him in the battle of Aeginusae, and he thanked the Mercenaries
  61 I   |             people of my country call Aesculapius! and to you, genii of the
  62 IX  |         Carthage was his own personal affair; he was indignant that the
  63 XIV |       adventures, they had contracted affections, one for the other, in which
  64 VII |               this testimony to their affliction prevented the slit from
  65 V   |          palace, and it was beginning afresh in the distance, towards
  66 VI  |              remains of it.~Four days afterward he was on the top of a defile
  67 XII |             from the great country of Agazymba, which is four months’ journey
  68 XII |          setting sun. To the right an agglomeration of white houses extended
  69 XI  |           Havas had in fact wished to aggrandise himself by encroachments
  70 II  |     astonishment; then, as by a tacit agreement, and believing perhaps that
  71 VII |        rolling gait, while the men of agriculture smelt of the wine-press,
  72 VIII|               Suffet’s slaves went on ahead to look for the buoys which
  73 III |                 cried Salammbo.~“What ails you, mistress? The blowing
  74 V   |            head, he reached up to the air-hole, made his way into it and
  75 IV  |             the cisterns. Through the air-holes in the cupolas on the ceiling
  76 VI  |               something observant and airy about his whole demeanour.~
  77 XII |     experienced anguish and something akin to enfeeblement. Hamilcar,
  78 XII |            mulattoes of doubtful sex, albinos whose red eyes blinked in
  79 II  |             surrounding him (the most alert, who had hastened thither
  80 IV  |       Agathocles, and the generals of Alexander furnished examples of marvellous
  81 VII |              of Corinth, and to three Alexandrian merchants, on these letters
  82 VII |            were piled little beams of algummim, bags of Lawsonia, cakes
  83 XI  |           does it matter? are you not all-powerful, immaculate, radiant and
  84 IV  |             ravage and slay. Grief is allayed with blood, and since you
  85 XIV |             them something that would alleviate their sufferings. The others
  86 XIV |              outcomes from this blind alley were closed by the portcullis
  87 I   |             order to pave the way for alliances; but Narr’ Havas had lodged
  88 XII |               tributary villages, the allied provinces, the independent
  89 IX  |              But the elephants, whose allowances were lessened, struggled
  90 V   |           said Spendius.~Pomegranate, almond trees, cypresses and myrtles
  91 XIV |          Pyrenees, the Gauls, and the Alps, and the empire of the Barcas
  92 XIII|            and hair-cloths around the altars; and attempts were made
  93 II  |        However, they were awaiting an ambassador from Carthage to bring them
  94 XIV |              the bushes they met with ambushed sentries, who prostrated
  95 XII |        families and idols. There were Ammonians with limbs wrinkled by the
  96     | amongst
  97 X   |            hovering about him like an amorous woman running after a man
  98 VIII|          serving-men, and reduced the amount of baggage; and as there
  99 VII |               The food for the crews, amounting to twenty minae a month
 100 VII |               ages arrayed in unequal amounts—from the ancient coins of
 101 XI  |            stone, and brought back an amphora of wine with fish from Hippo-Zarytus
 102 I   |        beneath some brazen vases, and amused themselves by watching the
 103 XIII|               were charged with their amusement and support until the solemn
 104 IV  |             they invited him to their amusements. If they were playing at
 105 II  |            this,” they thought, “that amuses itself by crucifying lions!”~
 106 III |              if calling to some one. “Anaitis! Astarte! Derceto! Astoreth!
 107 VII |              their hands to avert the anathema. All had risen. But the
 108 I   |               the walls. Come! in the Ancestor’s Chamber there is an ingot
 109 VI  |           loftier ambitions. A galley anchored on the Libyan sands, it
 110 XIV |               few minutes between his animosity and his appetite for authority,
 111 I   |             which oxen were roasting. Anise-sprinkled loaves alternated with great
 112 XIV |           succumbed it would mean the annihilation of the Republic, and he
 113 I   |          great feast to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Eryx, and
 114 VII |            pilot lowered his voice to announce that a trireme was taken
 115 IV  |            first they made no hostile announcement. Several approached with
 116 XIV |                The voice of the crier announcing the orders could no longer
 117 XIII|          coverlet was found.~The most annoying were the bullets of the
 118 XIII|           dispatched to Phoenicia the annual offering due to Tyrian Melkarth,
 119 VII |           want them.” And he drew the antelope’s skin that had been steeped
 120 XIII|              a horizontal bar. In its anterior portion was a cylinder,
 121 IV  |              necessary, therefore, to anticipate the vengeance of Carthage.
 122 VII |             indignant that he had not anticipated their disasters, or rather
 123 VIII|             was a reason the more for anticipating Hamilcar by uniting with
 124 XII |            hands: the old soldiers of Antiochus displayed a sparrow-hawk;
 125 IV  |              paid. But while national antipathies revived, together with personal
 126 VII |             Ancients, or Salammbo, or anybody, and his wrath required
 127 X   |           pilgrimage to the temple of Aphaka, where Tanith descended
 128 II  |            this way with proverbs and apologues, nodding his head the while
 129 XIII|              terrified by this act of apostasy, uttered a lengthened murmur.
 130 II  |        murmuring arose, and every one apostrophized him. Hanno gesticulated
 131 XIII|           great that the loss was not apparent.~The best of them tried
 132 VII |        immutable spirit which outward appearances took away. Something of
 133 III |              thy moisture.~“When thou appearest, quietness is spread abroad
 134 VII |            not understand whence this appeasement had come upon him.~As he
 135 VII |            forms, and all symbols and appellations of the gods, that he might
 136 IV  |               rich men were a kind of appendage to her person. He sat down
 137 IX  |              from his countenance and applaud. Narr’ Havas would elevate
 138 I   |              Mercenaries to Gisco. To appoint his palace for their reception
 139 VII |              that he might the better apprehend the immutable spirit which
 140 VIII|             surrounded his house.~The apprehensions of the rich appeared justified
 141 IX  |              them consider; they were apprehensive of treachery, not suspecting
 142 VII |             in Sardinia. The enemy is apprised of the road which they are
 143 II  |            could not believe them, so appropriately did they come in. The Balearians
 144 IV  |            soldiers, and definitively approved. Then they claimed tents;
 145 II  |            the temple alone, with its appurtenances, occupied half of it. Accordingly
 146 VI  |       offending Moloch by worshipping Aptouknos, the god of the Libyans,
 147 VII |               the export of silver to Arabia, where it had ten times
 148 IV  |           Uncleanness came forward as arbitrators, and declared that they
 149 VII |       shutters of black lattice-work. Arborescences, hillocks, eddies, and ill-defined
 150 VI  |            weaken it. It had assisted Archagathas, the son of Agathocles,
 151 VI  |         collection of little rooms of archaic architecture, built of palm
 152 XII |             citadel or the name of an archon; and some were to be seen
 153 XIV |            that he desired this death ardently, since he would be her husband
 154 V   |               forth. She was about to arise, as lofty as the hall and
 155 II  |          flowers, was bursting at the arm-pits; he wore a scarf, a girdle,
 156 X   |       observed the equinoxes with the armils placed in the portico of
 157 IV  |             which hung from below the armpit by a leathern band.~
 158 VII |            Horn and the promontory of Aromata.~Others had advanced continuously
 159 VII |          values, dimensions, and ages arrayed in unequal amounts—from
 160 VII |          hideous voice he said:~“Less arrogance, Barca! We have all been
 161 VIII|               in the throbbing of his arteries.~He told Spendius that if
 162 XIII|           like blood spurting from an artery. Thus Moloch was in possession
 163 XII |             their masts, arms, ropes, articulations, capitals and carapaces,
 164 I   |             himself upon them by some artifice later; accordingly, he signed
 165 II  |          stupefaction upon the large, artificially twisted horns of the oxen,
 166 VII |             cottages, of the domestic artisans whose productions were sold.
 167 I   |              with wine, truffles, and asafoetida. Pyramids of fruit were
 168 II  |               of her! Every night she ascends to the terrace of her palace,
 169 I   |               family.~She told of the ascent of the mountains of Ersiphonia,
 170 XIV |              branches of cassias, the asclepias was scattered over fields
 171 XII |            served with the princes of Asia, a hatchet, a pomegranate,
 172 II  |             the ashes of a weasel and asparagus boiled in vinegar from a
 173 VII |              a terrible and impatient aspect, as if he would fain have
 174 VI  |              vats, in which floods of asphalt were boiling. Below in the
 175 XIII|      descended from the rampart, and, assailing them in the rear, killed
 176 XIII|              silent about her wish to assassinate, lest she should be blamed
 177 V   |           Moloch; others spoke of the assassination of a priest. It was thought,
 178 I   |           they demanded permission to assemble to celebrate one of their
 179 XIV |           depended.~They paused, some asserting that it was right to summon
 180 XIII|               twenty-three days. This assertion, together with his presence,
 181 XI  |          stone, something in short to assist her. She was afraid of Gisco,
 182 VI  |      Accordingly he was interested in assisting the Barbarians, and he might
 183 VII |            not judged him. Terror was associated with the altar. They drew
 184 VII |             as they were, yet full of associations, and still emitting the
 185 IX  |               built in the mountains, Assoura celebrated for its temple,
 186 IV  |              and practicable. But the assumption of their desire to mix with
 187 XIV |       fulfilling your promises?”~They assured him that they were returning
 188 VII |             from the ancient coins of Assyria, slender as the nail, to
 189 III |        calling to some one. “Anaitis! Astarte! Derceto! Astoreth! Mylitta!
 190 VIII|       district. Soon the streets were astir, and the soldiers were everywhere
 191 III |            Anaitis! Astarte! Derceto! Astoreth! Mylitta! Athara! Elissa!
 192 VII |           Harousch, after passing the Atarantes and the country of the great
 193 XII |             hot water of the springs; Atarantians, who curse the sun; Troglodytes,
 194 III |           Derceto! Astoreth! Mylitta! Athara! Elissa! Tiratha!—By the
 195 VII |               realised), ten thousand Athenian drachmas, and twelve Syrian
 196 XII |              them round the dead; the Athenians laid them out with their
 197 VII |               an iron bar.~This silly atrocity made the Suffet indignant;
 198 II  |               He appeared desirous of attaching Matho to himself. He sent
 199 VI  |             The Carthaginians had not attempted to pursue the Barbarians.
 200 XIII|    hair-cloths around the altars; and attempts were made to excite the
 201 IX  |            rinsing their baskets, the attendants in the vapour baths and
 202 II  |              on a Punic stallion, and attended by his slave, who led a
 203 IX  |             squatting round a shield, attentively moved backwards and forwards
 204 I   |            said. They wondered at her attire, but she turned a long frightened
 205 X   |          auguries were drawn from the attitudes of serpents. But the basket
 206 XIII|             and then began once more, attracting the crowd to them by the
 207 II  |            exaggerated politeness and audacious hypocrisy even sought to
 208 XIII|             standing.~Then they drove augers against the walls; these
 209 XII |               Harousch, the desert of Augila, and even from the great
 210 II  |          sunrise, as melancholy as an augur, to wander about the country.
 211 X   |           approached the serpent, for auguries were drawn from the attitudes
 212 IX  |              had even refused to take augurs with him; and the scandal
 213 XIV |             rapidly that it formed an aureola around him. A stone broke
 214 XII |             of trees; and the hideous Auseans, who eat grass-hoppers;
 215 VI  |              scent of the pastures on autumn mornings, of snowflakes,
 216 XI  |      vengeance was his due was not an auxiliary to be despised; Hamilcar
 217 XIV |            board such vessels as were available. He was apparently taking
 218 XII |               presented themselves of avoiding the war. Accordingly they
 219 IX  |            that the Mercenaries would await him at Utica, or that they
 220 XI  |            the odour of their corpses awakes me in the night; I drive
 221 IV  |     understood by all.~Gisco was well aware that he was being abandoned
 222 VII |                he knew all, something awful was about to happen. “Pardon!”
 223 XV  |              him; he stood motionless awhile. All had recognised him,
 224 IV  |           other nations, Carthage had awkwardly borrowed this novel invention
 225 VII |          three Indian bezoars with an awl. The master, who knew the
 226 XI  |              herd of the Mercenaries, ay, and so meek that I used
 227 I   |              like star-rockets on the azure-coloured earth. The gloomy bushes
 228 I   |            said:~“Hail first to thee, Baal-Eschmoun, the deliverer, whom the
 229 XIII|               god of celestial space; Baal-Peor, god of the sacred mountains;
 230 XIII|       inferior forms of the Divinity: Baal-Samin, god of celestial space;
 231 XIII|              of the sacred mountains; Baal-Zeboub, god of corruption, with
 232 III |           moon, and said:~“O Rabetna!—Baalet!—Tanith!” and her voice
 233 X   |        pontiffs; he had even employed baaras, a fiery-coloured root which
 234 VII |             risk everything,” replied Baat-Baal, who possessed gold mines
 235 X   |            Mogbeds, at Borsippa, near Babylon; had then visited Samothrace,
 236 V   |              the sacred beasts of the Babylonians, and others with which they
 237 VII |              his heels with leaves of baccharis. He repelled them; they
 238 XIV |             first were pierced to the backbone, those coming next surged
 239 IX  |          country people were now more backward in bringing him provisions.
 240 IV  |              take it in Carthage.~The bad faith of the Mercenaries
 241 VII |              It was dug out merely to baffle robbers, and it concealed
 242 I   |             the streets. Dromedaries, baggage-laden, came down the ramps. Money-changers
 243 I   |   wine-presses, cellars, storehouses, bakeries, and arsenals, with a court
 244 I   |      courtesans, and the furnaces for baking the clay coffins were beginning
 245 XIII|          Before each tabernacle a man balanced a large vase of smoking
 246 XII |             he let it fall again. The Balearian fastened a pick and a mallet
 247 XIII|              completely carpeted with bales of cotton, sails, and cushions;
 248 VII |         employed, took a horn full of balm, and after holding it near
 249 XIV |           Evening fell, and odours of balsam were exhaled. For a long
 250 XII |               The Ethiopians from the Bambotus had little poisoned darts
 251 XIV |            engagements. Some had even bandaged their eyes, and their swords
 252 VIII|           were unwinding bloodstained bandages from their legs. Those who
 253 XIII|          However, it had eight wheels banded with iron, and it had been
 254 VII |                 maritime interest; to Bar-Malkarth fifteen hundred shekels
 255 VI  |              exclusively, and, in his Barbarian-like subtlety, he said to himself: “
 256 II  |           heart; Negro women, singing barbarous words in the moonlight,
 257 XIV |              theatres, baths, and the barbers’ shops where there are tales
 258 VI  |               bows.~The soldiers were barely in possession of their arms;
 259 VI  |            squandered and lost in the bargaining with the Barbarians. Nevertheless
 260 IV  |              long, dangerously-loaded barges advanced amid the shouts
 261 XII |         rolling in the dust. They had bark-thread drawers, dried-grass tunics,
 262 VII |          marble yard and the silphium barn.~He went to the other side
 263 IV  |               barley and harness, and barracks for twenty thousand soldiers
 264 X   |              black dog slaughtered by barren women on a winter’s night
 265 X   |               But Salammbo was in the barrenness of his life like a flower
 266 XIII|          misery was not so great, had barricaded themselves through fear
 267 XIII|              in its hand, it laid the basketful of men upon the edge of
 268 I   |               like satraps. We should bathe in perfumes; and I should
 269 II  |               I gave more money for a bather and four scullions than
 270 II  |             the Suffet who had it for bathing in during his journey; for
 271 III |              to another like gigantic bats spreading their wings. The
 272 XIII|              and rose alternately and battered the rams; cramps hurled
 273 XIII|             by long files of men were battering at the gates; and, in order
 274 I   |         middle of the garden, as on a battle-field when they burn the dead,
 275 IX  |            campaign. They would trace battle-plans with their fingers in the
 276 XV  |             vine branches, and with a battle-sword at his side.~The python
 277 IX  |        thousand captives taken on the battlefield. They arrived in long companies
 278 XIV |                Havas had held a great battue, and— after tying goats
 279 VII |            were brimful of myrobalan, bdellium, saffron, and violets. Gums,
 280 XIII|           spot communicating with the beach by a subterranean passage
 281 I   |               lost in the courts; the beacon on the promontory of Hermaeum
 282 VIII|            there in the darkness like beacons nearly half lost in the
 283 VII |             he held a necklace of jet beads, so as to recognise the
 284 XIV |          reminded his companions of a bear coming forth from its cave
 285 V   |            covered with breasts. Fat, bearded, and with eyelids downcast,
 286 I   |            wrapped in cloud.~Only the beardless priests understood Salammbo;
 287 VI  |             presenting himself as the bearer of a flag of truce, in the
 288 II  |             loud reproaches; then the bearers would stop and take a different
 289 XII |            seen behind the rest, with beast-like profiles and grinning with
 290 XV  |            upon the red heart. As the beatings diminished the planet sank
 291 XII |          indignant with men.~Spendius beckoned to him and led him to a
 292 III |             deep, like the buzzing of bees, and with increasing sonorousness
 293 II  |               Libyans, even if he did behave with clemency, thought the
 294 IX  |               accused Barca of having behaved with slackness. He ought
 295 VI  |               he would in imagination behold the fires in long, straw-roofed
 296 XIII|               upon the breasts of the beholders. The last shouts died out
 297 VII |      Carthaginians at the rate of one bekah a moon.”~“No! it is too
 298 VII |              effort as if in order to bellow.~Ebony stools were ranged
 299 VI  |              of snowflakes, or of the bellowing of the urus lost in the
 300 XIV |             to reach the top, but the bellying shape of the great masses
 301 IX  |            against her; she was still beloved, and perhaps more deeply
 302 X   |       Alexandria, and accompanied the bematists of Evergetes, who measure
 303 XI  |               some sent them a vulgar benediction; others obscene jests, and
 304 VII |            Hamilcar amid eulogies and benedictions.~Along the walls of the
 305 IX  |            her virtue. She denied the beneficence of her waters, she had abandoned
 306 IV  |              fat and well rubbed with benjamin they should be sent in ships
 307 XIV |            and in the somnolence that benumbed them their thoughts jostled
 308 VII |          tyanos, diamonds, sandastra, beryls, with the three kinds of
 309 II  |         master! Summon your will, and beseech the gods no more, for they
 310 VI  |              before. Moreover, he was beset with thoughts of Salammbo,
 311 XI  |         meeting any one, for all were betaking themselves to the fire;
 312 II  |            the Barbarians.~“Was it to betray them, or else the Republic?”
 313 VII |           still felt something of the betrayal of his hope, and the shock,
 314 XIV |           indignant as though he were betraying them. Those who were most
 315 IX  |            hins of millet, and twelve betzas of dried fruit. No more
 316 VIII|   pearl-bordered tents, drinking cool beverages from silver cups, playing
 317 VII |               he pierced three Indian bezoars with an awl. The master,
 318 VIII|               and then those who were big-bellied or had a pusillanimous look;
 319 XII |       branches like antelopes’ horns, bills fastened to the ends of
 320 X   |            motionless than a withered bind-weed; and from looking at it
 321 I   |         hatred is roused! and nothing binds them to Carthage, neither
 322 VII |               The house ought to have births every year, Giddenem. You
 323 VI  |           wheat, sulphur, black wine, bitch’s milk, myrrh, galbanum
 324 II  |          overflowed between the lofty bitumen-smeared houses six storys high.
 325 XIII|          strode across him.~The three black-robed men were waiting in the
 326 XI  |         longer now, their faces still blacker, and their voices hoarser.
 327 IX  |              narrowest lanes, and the blackest dens, there issued pale
 328 XIII|            and carpenters, armourers, blacksmiths, and goldsmiths were intrusted
 329 II  |              not being paid, laid the blame upon the Republic. Spendius
 330 XII |         sheltered in confused fashion blankets, carpets, and a lion’s skin.
 331 VIII|             its line. Undulations and blanks were to be found through
 332 IV  |                said Spendius. “Shout, blaspheme, ravage and slay. Grief
 333 IV  |              rose a giant pharos that blazed forth every night.~In this
 334 XI  |            elbows and turned round to bless her. All the Barbarians
 335 X   |             zaimph again, and she now blessed Schahabarim for his exhortations.~
 336 IV  |           down at so low a rate that, blindness apart, it was impossible
 337 XII |                albinos whose red eyes blinked in the sun; stammering out
 338 VIII|               victory; it was full of bliss, and he believed himself
 339 VI  |              left in such a way as to blockade the harbour; and they were
 340 XII |          Hanno contented himself with blockading the harbour without risking
 341 XI  |            mules. Half-gnawed carrion blocked the streets.~Night fell.
 342 VI  |           outside the tents, wipe his blood-splashed face with his arm, and gaze
 343 XII |       themselves to be conquered.~The bloodless faces lying back here and
 344 XII |               The dying rolled in the bloody mire biting their mutilated
 345 I   |               pines; a field of roses bloomed beneath the plane-trees;
 346 XV  |              all external things were blotted out, and she saw only Matho.
 347 VI  |             with their gilt tusks and blue-painted ears, hastening up in single
 348 IV  |              indignant; and they were bluntly told that they were to receive
 349 XI  |               seem to understand. She blushed a little as she cast down
 350 XI  |              religious, and Salammbo, blushing, rolled the two pieces of
 351 II  |                he could make sandals, boar-spears and nets; he could tame
 352 XIV |                 I will speak!” And he boasted that he knew excellent things
 353 IX  |               a snare in the Suffet’s boasting, and they began to look
 354 XI  |         shadow seemed to be displaced bodily; in other places it looked
 355 XIV |               conquerors into his own body-guard. This death was quite as
 356 II  |           bucklers, broad swords, and Boeotian helmets out of the cases
 357 XIII|           flowers among the stones to boil them in wine, wine being
 358 XIV |             merely to try, they said. Bolder ones came up; their number
 359 XI  |        prostrated himself in token of bondage, and to prove his fidelity
 360 XIII|              the Yidonim, who put the bone of a dead man into their
 361 VI  |              cheese and marjoram, the boned fish, gourds, oysters with
 362 VI  |               day to put on his right boot first.~He reared a long
 363 X   |            College of the Mogbeds, at Borsippa, near Babylon; had then
 364 XV  |             He threaded the street of Boudes, and the street of Soepo,
 365 II  |          their fatigues.~Spendius had bought a slave with the money brought
 366 V   |            thought but stopped at the boundary, where it terrified him.~“
 367 XI  |               her teeth, and in three bounds she was on the platform.~
 368 V   |     full-blown roses formed a hanging bower over the whole length of
 369 XIV |      vegetation formed entwinings and bowers; and here and there, as
 370 IX  |            ascended the terraces, and bowing down nine times uttered
 371 IV  |              crush his feet, or if at boxing to fracture his jaw with
 372 XIV |             of their tusks a leathern bracelet, in which the handle of
 373 XII |               desert, drinking at the brackish wells walled in with camels’
 374 VIII|            sword from the hand or the brain out of the skull. The wounded,
 375 XIII|            opened entrails, scattered brains, and pools of blood; and
 376 VII |            them here!” he cried; “and brand them on the forehead with
 377 XIV |            torches were extinguished; brands were taken from the funeral-pile
 378 II  |               as they leaned on their brass-nailed clubs. The heedless Gauls
 379 I   |              fatigue. A man like you, braver than Pyrrhus! If only you
 380 XII |               coveted her wealth. The bravest had very speedily joined
 381 XIV |            The ruins fell through the breaches in the walls to the centre
 382 XII |            dim ships half lost in the breakers. Cuirasses, forks, clarions,
 383 IX  |                pumped up the blood by breastfuls; then he quietly sat down
 384 V   |             perfumes, radiations, and breathings overwhelmed him. Through
 385 XII |            asleep close to their dead brethren, those who still clung to
 386 XIII|              allowed themselves to be bribed with presents. All were
 387 VII |               of stone, the second of brick, and the third all of cedar—
 388 IV  |         apertures like rivers beneath bridges.~The hill of the Acropolis,
 389 IV  |           galloping on horses without bridles. Their golden bracelets
 390 XIII|               and even the women were brigaded. The people lay in the streets
 391 IX  |             with Masgaba, a Gaetulian brigand who was seeking to found
 392 XIII|               asked.~He was told that brigands were coming to put him into
 393 III |              the impalpable ether! It brightens about thee, and ’tis the
 394 XIV |               by the wind, and broad, brilliantly bordered discs, which were
 395 VII |             deep and filled up to the brim! During your voyage I had
 396 VII |         interior of a hive. They were brimful of myrobalan, bdellium,
 397 XI  |             his foot behind her.~“Who brings you here? why do you come?”~“
 398 I   |              wretches: bending on the brink of the ocean, she buries
 399 VII |             like a herdsman along the brinks of precipices.”~“Speak!
 400 VII |             of the kitchens, men were brisking up burning coals with fans
 401 VII |         equipment of the goddess. Her broad-sleeved hyacinth robe fitted close
 402 VI  |         horse-radishes, truffles, and brochettes of small birds. As he looked
 403 XIII|         distinguished on the walls. A broken-down wooden tower burned here
 404 IV  |           port where the Carthaginian broker was recruiting soldiers.
 405 XI  |             his ears gleamed upon his bronzed neck; big tears rolled in
 406 VI  |             golden cup in which viper broth was smoking.~“Drink!” said
 407 VII |            for brothers meeting their brother again.~These men were generally
 408 II  |        thickets. Flocks of sheep were browsing among the stones; a woman
 409 II  |             howling, weeping, shaken, bruised, and calling down the curse
 410 XIV |            closer than the hairs of a brush. But they were animated
 411 II  |             robes, sponges, scrapers, brushes, perfumes, and antimony
 412 VII |               discreet and convulsive brutality to their whole demeanour.
 413 VII |               his feet; he raised her brutally.~“Where have you left him,
 414 I   |             against these exasperated brute beasts. It would be better
 415 XII |            Etruscans, Campanians, and Bruttians.~The Greeks dug pits with
 416 VI  |            bodies streamed with great bubbles like three fountains, and
 417 I   |           with an ox-bone on a brazen buckler.~Suddenly they heard a plaintive
 418 XIV |               Barbarians devoured the buds. Afterwards they found a
 419 I   |               flowers, with women and buffoons! Do not tell me that the
 420 IV  |          Carthaginians could hear the bugle-flourishes that regulated their exercises.
 421 I   |             went beyond the oceans to build temples on their shores.
 422 VII |             quite square and the sail bulging down the whole length of
 423 VII |            people, in the presence of bull-headed Moloch, I swear”—they expected
 424 XII |             him. “No, the whiz of the bullet would make a noise! Let
 425 VII |           hillocks formed of heaps of bullion on the pavement; and here
 426 VII |               of earth, branches, and bulrush-hurdles, and all of a conical shape.
 427 XIII|               within the enclosure. A bundle of horrible irons was thrown
 428 VIII|           from their ivory fangs like bundles of rope from a mast. The
 429 VIII|              on ahead to look for the buoys which had been placed at
 430 II  |              was setting the infinite burdens of the Republic before the
 431 IX  |           that way. The war was quite burdensome enough! it had cost too
 432 I   |               brink of the ocean, she buries her greedy arms in every
 433 XI  |             her breast.~“Moloch, thou burnest me!” and the soldier’s kisses,
 434 VII |         volcanoes! by everything that burns! by the thirst of the desert
 435 II  |             painted with flowers, was bursting at the arm-pits; he wore
 436 VII |             believed to be the family burying-place; but nothing would have
 437 VII |              his ears, and his black, bushy beard rested on his breast.~
 438 XIII|               vexation; Salammbo, who busied herself in helping him,
 439 XIII|           them under pretence of some business, or of some dainty that
 440 VIII|           shorter swords and stronger buskins. He fixed the number of
 441 IX  |               they could see the four bustling camps of the Barbarians
 442 VII |               others!”~And the cooks, butlers, grooms, runners, and litter-carriers,
 443 IV  |              naked and uncircumcised, butted with their heads against
 444 III |            her head. She wore a coral button on the nostril, and she
 445 VII |               than the hand, with the buttons of Egina, the tablets of
 446 V   |     stiffening his arms, and making a buttress of his feet, and at last
 447 V   |          another, and stones began to buzz about him; but the missiles,
 448 XII |        afterwards a fleet coming from Byzacena, and conveying provisions
 449 VII |              last shekel, to the last cab! Abdalonim, bring me the
 450 II  |               the broad leaves of the cactus.~The Barbarians slackened
 451 X   |               filled with strobus and cadamomum in the corners of the apartment;
 452 II  |              going so far as to bring caged weasels from Hecatompylos,
 453 VII |             which were either in gold calabashes fastened like sconces upon
 454 IV  |             corn sold during the most calamitous period of the war was set
 455 II  |               ever beginning the same calculation over again, they would trace
 456 XIII|         construction required learned calculations; the wood selected had to
 457 VII |               of the wall. There were callaides shot away from the mountains
 458 IV  |               of time to occasion two callosities there; these were called
 459 I   |               Cantabrian by his broad calves. There were Carians proudly
 460 II  |               a large bronze tub on a camel: it belonged to the Suffet
 461 II  |           lodge in the houses, others camped at the foot of the walls,
 462 I   |         injustice of your chiefs, the campings in the snow, the marchings
 463 IV  |             boats passing through the canal of Taenia entered the lake.~
 464 I   |               below, on the left, the canals of Megara were beginning
 465 I   |             last he seized a brimming cantharus by its rings, raised it
 466 I   |        crateras filled with wine, and cantharuses filled with water, together
 467 XIV |                Amphoras, flagons, and canvases had been placed out of doors;
 468 X   |             the return to the gods in Capricorn; and Salammbo strove to
 469 XIII|             him.~Some men bent over a capstan; the great beam rose, became
 470 VIII|            trumpet was sounded: their captain tapped them softly on the
 471 XIV |            voice and feminine figure, captivated her eyes by the grace of
 472 VII |            the value of gold, and the captures of vessels, deduction of
 473 XIV |               the large nets used for capturing wild beasts, and, taking
 474 XV  |              of throne cut out of the carapace of a tortoise. An ivory
 475 IV  |           Suffet replied that a whole caravan of maidens was expected
 476 XIV |             their swords. Some former caravan-leaders tightened their waists with
 477 XV  |            the nipples were hidden by carbuncle pendants. She had a headdress
 478 VI  |          chain. Each one wore an iron carcanet, and the crowd was never
 479 VII |               of the garden, fetters, carcanets, knives, chains for those
 480 XII |          hidden with shields; horses’ carcasses succeeded one another like
 481 VII |              mixture of meal, butter, cardamom, and wine: “Drink freely,”
 482 XII |            the zaimph; even those who cared nothing about it had experienced
 483 IX  |                in spite of Hamilcar’s carefulness, diminished frightfully.
 484 XIII|               wives of the plebeians. Careless of their country’s needs,
 485 XIV |               and so profound was the carelessness exhibited that no one even
 486 V   |             strove to soften her with caressing words, such as are used
 487 XI  |              silver globes; he sighed caressingly, and murmured vague words
 488 VII |           been necessary to throw the cargo into the seas, and so the
 489 IX  |               his assistance. But not caring to compromise themselves,
 490 II  |         extraordinary on the top of a carob tree: a lion’s head reared
 491 XIII|           made them all captains; and carpenters, armourers, blacksmiths,
 492 VI  |               lofty engines appeared: carrobalistas, onagers, catapults and
 493 XI  |           made by dogs. Soldiers were carting faggots, resting on their
 494 XIII|              see before them the long cascade formed by the clear falling
 495 VII |           they are to take, as in the case of those Gauls in Sicily,
 496 XIV |          mounted into the branches of cassias, the asclepias was scattered
 497 VII |               of tin brought from the Cassiterides over the Dark Sea; gums
 498 VI  |           commands had come in purple cassocks, the magnificent fringes
 499 IX  |              like the eyes of a tiger cat gleaming in a bush by the
 500 XII |               beyond Taggir. They had cat-skin quivers flapping against