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1001 XIII|           mouths, and their gums were discoloured like those of camels after
1002 XIII|                The Suffet was so much disconcerted by this look that it made
1003 V   |              the pharos. The wall was discontinued at this spot, so inaccessible
1004 XIV |         obstinacy which nothing could discourage, he would advance twenty
1005 II  |             seen in the leafy taverns discoursing in the midst of the soldiers.
1006 VII |             Kabiri called Aletes, the discoverer of the mines in Celtiberia.
1007 IV  |               If they were playing at discus, they would manage to crush
1008 I   |            great cheeses heavier than discuses, crateras filled with wine,
1009 VI  |              crowded there all day to discuss their own concerns and those
1010 IX  |           retailers of hot drinks all discussed the operations of the campaign.
1011 XIII|          important matters were under discussion, for he stood motionless,
1012 VIII|          further off. Again, he could disembark at Cape Grapes and march
1013 IV  |       simultaneously in the rear, one disembarking at the end of the gulf of
1014 VIII|         towers; with their tusks they disembowelled them, and hurled them into
1015 XI  |        tremble!”~He fell asleep. Then disengaging herself from his arm she
1016 XII |          imitation of the wounds that disfigured the dead. Roarings burst
1017 VII |            bird; and he indicated his disguise, as it lay on the ground,
1018 XIV |              overwhelmed with immense disgust. They wished for nothing
1019 IV  |              ingratitude he would not dishonour it. When they reminded him
1020 IV  |              wages would be paid, the disillusion touched their pride no less
1021 IV  |             brought they succeeded in dislodging one of the flagstones.~In
1022 VII |              division! Afterwards you dismiss the whole of them with their
1023 III |           last he made a sign for the dismissal of the slave, who was not
1024 XII |      irrevocably lost.~He immediately dismissed Narr’ Havas, who was to
1025 II  |             him food, assisted him to dismount, and spread a carpet in
1026 XII |             his men to move aside. He dismounted from his horse; and pricking
1027 VII |              against them by murmured disparagement of their work. “What a performance!
1028 IV  |               magnificent cattle, and disparaging what they coveted, offered
1029 XIV |             and came to warn Hanno to dispatch men to Hamilcar’s assistance.
1030 IV  |            The interpreters should be dispensed with! Zarxas sang war songs
1031 X   |             smiled amid this dazzling display.~Then she walked to and
1032 IX  |          Autaritus’s idea; but it was displeasing to Matho.~Hamilcar in exasperation,
1033 XI  |               in his tent, and at his disposal? Some one no doubt had urged
1034 X   |               convinced, and was more disposed to succour Tanith, the python
1035 XIV |               no more.~Men of violent disposition perished first; the Africans
1036 IX  |              another with knives in a dispute about a rat.~All regretted
1037 I   |               understood that a great disquiet possessed him, and did not
1038 III |        passing of a cloud, everything disquiets you just now!”~“I do not
1039 VI  |               now they were unable to dissemble their anxiety; they were
1040 IV  |              melancholy, and the rest dissembled their anxiety.~The soldiers
1041 V   |            would be useless to try to dissuade Matho.~They went by the
1042 VIII|           shoulders, moved about iron distaffs furnished with lighted tow
1043 XI  |               black shadows ran about distractedly on the red horizon. They
1044 XIII|            Nevertheless, Hamilcar was distressed at his inability to communicate
1045 VII |            piece of delicacy to avoid distressing his daughter!”~A louder
1046 II  |            and why the Suffet did not distribute the money?~He was setting
1047 III |               of thine agitation that distributes the winds and fruitful dews.
1048 VII |              the servants; and as the disturbance was increasing Hamilcar
1049 VII |          night in order to signal the disturbances of the planet with his trumpet,
1050 XIII|            particular influences from disturbing his, diversely coloured
1051 VII |      brandished daggers. But Hamilcar dived into his sleeves and drew
1052 XIII|       influences from disturbing his, diversely coloured metal stars were
1053 IV  |           verdure in this mountain of diversely-coloured blocks. It was levelled
1054 XIV |              His love, which had been diverted by other ambitions, had
1055 XI  |        chinked with crevices which in dividing formed, as it were, monstrous
1056 XIII|              the crowd to them by the dizziness of their motion with its
1057 IX  |            celebrated for its temple, Djeraado fertile in junipers, Thapitis,
1058 VIII|               defence, Matho listened docilely to his companion. They spoke
1059 X   |              revelation of a pitiless doctrine. In spite of the pains of
1060 III |      penetrate into the depths of her dogma, she wished to become acquainted,
1061 XI  |               seize it.~“What are you doing?” exclaimed Matho.~“I am
1062 III |         passed an amber necklace with dolphin’s teeth about her neck to
1063 II  |         covered with cultivation. The domains of the patricians succeeded
1064 XIII|               of the apertures in the dome; in the centre the slave
1065 I   |              feast, his father having domiciled him with the Barca family,
1066 X   |        rebelled inwardly against this domination; her feeling towards the
1067 IV  |            trying to lie, the coward! Don’t trust him.”~For some time
1068 VII |               them in the Republic by donations and privileges.~Then Magdassin,
1069 VIII|            their legs. Those who were doomed to die rolled their heads
1070 VII |             walls.~But as soon as the doorway was crossed one found oneself
1071 I   |           from Rome. Beside the heavy Dorian dialect were audible the
1072 I   |           grasshoppers, and preserved dormice. Large pieces of fat floated
1073 II  |          ample black cloak with laced double-sleeves. But the abundance of his
1074 XIII|            perhaps have gone away. He doubled the outposts, he planted
1075 VII |            try to reach Eziongaber by doubling the Southern Horn and the
1076 XII |        deformed pigmies, mulattoes of doubtful sex, albinos whose red eyes
1077 V   |             bearded, and with eyelids downcast, she looked as though she
1078 IX  |                feeling as it were the downfall of the Republic in the bottom
1079 XI  |           head, and she involuntarily dozed a little. The two animals
1080 XIV |        advancing over the plains, and dozing beneath the weight of their
1081 VII |                 ten thousand Athenian drachmas, and twelve Syrian talents
1082 XI  |          could see that you wished to drag me to some terrible thing
1083 I   |              a plain where women with dragon-croups were round a great fire,
1084 VII |         behind lakes all covered with dragons. Others had returned from
1085 IV  |               would sometimes appear, draped in a dark cloak, barefooted,
1086 IV  |         bracelets leaped in the vague drapings of their cloaks. A man could
1087 I   |               of red clay relieved by drawings in black, then with every
1088 X   |               exclaimed:~“No! no! she draws all her fecundity from the
1089 XII |              Libyans, in spite of the dreadful massacre of them by the
1090 III |               men!” repeated Salammbo dreamily.~“She is the soul of Carthage,”
1091 II  |            long beard stood thus in a dreamy attitude here and there.
1092 XII |              further fury in the very dregs of the races, men might
1093 XV  |          fringes of their tunics were drenched with sweat. Matho appeared
1094 XII |              had bark-thread drawers, dried-grass tunics, fallow-deer muzzles
1095 X   |               struck herself upon her dried-up bosom. “Now I am old! I
1096 VI  |        Moreover, they knew nothing of drill, and Autaritus was so disheartened
1097 IV  |           command of his soldiers. He drilled them pitilessly. He was
1098 VII |               a greasy perfume, which dripped upon the pavement, and his
1099 X   |             fiery-coloured root which drives back fatal geniuses into
1100 XIV |            sides of the mountain. The drizzle that fell upon the corpses
1101 IV  |               the walls of the narrow duct. The water flowed almost
1102 VII |        turtles, and with palms on the dune. “And in accordance with
1103 XV  |             her eyes.~The door of the dungeon, hewn in the rock at the
1104 VII |               him be smothered in the dunghill. And those that are missing?
1105 IV  |         declared that they were being duped. Then they drew their swords
1106 XIII|              the hierodules no longer durst approach them. They were
1107 III |             in one direction into the dustiness of the plains, and in the
1108 III |            never failed in this pious duty.~Some merchants from Darytian
1109 XIV |              not appear taller than a dwarf. However, Autaritus recognised
1110 IV  |               to annihilate it and to dwell in it. But what was there
1111 V   |      cynocephalus, one of those which dwelt at liberty within the enclosure
1112 IV  |              Malqua, the sailors’ and dyers’ quarter. Masts might be
1113 XV  |        outside the mole, shone like a dyke of diamonds; everywhere
1114 II  |             buzzed in their ears, and dysentry was breaking out in the
1115 VI  |           Spendius, who was listening eagerly, snatched up the zaimph
1116 VI  |               Greek did not reply. An earthen lamp was burning gently
1117 XIV |           shouted to make her travail easy.~The rain beat upon the
1118 XI  |        fingers are cut off. The mouth eats no more.”~The slave showed
1119 IV  |          slightest sound made a great echo.~Spendius and Matho commenced
1120 VII |       entangled in weeds, the horizon echoed continually with the noise
1121 III |         revived at evening. During an eclipse she nearly died.~But Rabetna,
1122 VII |           show that they had not been economical in their dress when mourning
1123 I   |             before the stars amid the eddyings from kindled perfuming-pans.
1124 VI  |             enlarged, and caparisons, edged with very heavy fringes,
1125 III |         Tanith, and it was he who had educated Salammbo.~“Speak!” he said. “
1126 IX  |              after a descent had been effected along the palisades by means
1127 XIII|            Gisco; for as words had an effective power in themselves, curses,
1128 XIII|           died previously, cast their effigies, their playthings, their
1129 VII |             hand, with the buttons of Egina, the tablets of Bactriana,
1130 IX  |      incomprehensible. He encamped at Eidous, Monchar, and Tehent successively;
1131 XIII|             cries of the victims. The eight-stringed scheminiths, the kinnors
1132 VI  |         twenty-three shekels of gold, eighteen elephants, fourteen members
1133 VI  |                in which the laws were elaborated, chose the inspectors of
1134 VII |              from Schesbar; Syracuse, Elathia, Corsica, and the islands
1135 VIII|          bells, and shrieked; and the elephantarchs bent their heads beneath
1136 XIII|             of Carthage, muttered the Eleusinian formula: “Pour out rain!
1137 IX  |            applaud. Narr’ Havas would elevate his chin to mark his disdain;
1138 XIV |            front of him.~Owing to his elevation this man did not appear
1139 VIII|               army, which amounted to eleven thousand three hundred and
1140 III |            Astoreth! Mylitta! Athara! Elissa! Tiratha!—By the hidden
1141 XI  |              was a fresh, indefinable emanation, which nevertheless made
1142 XIV |              immediate and an eternal emancipation, and he awaited death with
1143 I   |         beneath the foam, but the sun embalmed it; it became harder than
1144 I   |              will follow me, and if I embark in a galley he will speed
1145 VII |           vague words upon the public embarrassments which he hoped by his sole
1146 IX  |             Thapitis, and Hagour sent embassies to him. The country people
1147 XV  |           genius of Carthage, and its embodied soul.~The feast was to last
1148 XIV |               in an irregular fashion embossed the plain, something rose
1149 II  |           them with protestations and embraces. Some with exaggerated politeness
1150 VII |               accosted one another by embracing breast to breast. They surrounded
1151 XII |        shriller, the recognitions and embracings more frantic. Women stretched
1152 XIII|             down. Some watched at the embrasures with fisherman’s nets, and
1153 X   |             tunic she passed a second embroidered with birds’ feathers. Golden
1154 IX  |               and traders, scullions, embroiderers, and even women,—the widows
1155 XIII|               hangings, pendants, and embroideries of the sacred pavilions
1156 VII |              sold. There were tailors embroidering cloaks, others making nets,
1157 XIV |              red leather covered with embroidery, with three diamond stars,
1158 XI  |           face and flaming eyes would emerge from these ruins. But he
1159 XII |          dying.~Hamilcar had suddenly emerged from the bottom of the gorge,
1160 X   |           dust of the earth, since it emerges from its depths and has
1161 XII |           horizon on the summit of an eminence. Then the ground sank, and
1162 II  |             to time these passed over eminences lit up by the moon; then
1163 XIV |              Matho regretted that the emissary had not been killed.~He
1164 IV  |               the echoes of crumbling empires would furnish dreams to
1165 I   |       subtlety she was simultaneously employing all the dialects of the
1166 XII |           defeat. They thought of the emptiness of their courage, and they
1167 XIV |              detached them from their encampments. Spendius was obliged to
1168 II  |             me, I hear her voice. She encompasses me, she penetrates me. It
1169 XIV |       betrayed them; but Hamilcar was encompassing these two towns. Then they
1170 XIII|           empty. Then the priests, to encourage the people, drew bodkins
1171 XV  |           abuse mingled with ironical encouragements and imprecations; and, his
1172 XIII|             him a sort of outrage, an encroachment upon his own privileges.
1173 XI  |              to aggrandise himself by encroachments upon the Punic provinces,
1174 V   |               the pavement, which was encrusted with gold, mother-of-pearl,
1175 IV  |               to another. The boldest endeavoured to pay themselves, while
1176     | ending
1177 XII |                for he could no longer endure the shaking of the litter.
1178 VII |             or rather that he had not endured them as well as they.~When
1179 XII |      themselves in the sea.~Utica was enduring the presence of soldiers,
1180 X   |               she had undergone, were enervating her. She became so pale
1181 XII |         anguish and something akin to enfeeblement. Hamilcar, not indulging
1182 V   |             towards her, was about to enfold her in an embrace. She was
1183 III |            quite young, and after her enfranchisement she would not forsake her
1184 IX  |           Every minute there was some engagement, some fresh alarm; the towers
1185 VII |            rays, and stars. Ceraunia, engendered by the thunder, sparkled
1186 VI  |            one being strong enough to engross it. Private debts were considered
1187 XIV |                and several times they enjoyed the sight of seeing the
1188 I   |           minutes with closed eyelids enjoying the agitation of all these
1189 XIV |               in thought to boundless enjoyments. With this harmony of hatred,
1190 II  |              coral-fisheries, for the enlargement of the Syssitia, and for
1191 III |             doors of Baal-Khamon, the enlightener and fertiliser; I have sacrificed
1192 VII |             Great Council, for as the enlistment of the soldiers expired
1193 VI  |            the same day. All kinds of enmities were contrived between them,
1194 VI  |               affairs.~He decreed the enrolment of all healthy citizens,
1195 VII |           snatched off the tiara, the ensign of his rank—his tiara with
1196 VII |              reached a door where, to ensure its better protection and
1197 IX  |          should unite to surprise and entangle him. Then they received
1198 XII |                knocked down men, and, entangling its feet in its entrails,
1199 XIII|             who are destined to great enterprises. When he had cast aside
1200 XIV |           received him with even more enthusiastic acclamations than on the
1201 IX  |           hatred; and in spite of his entreaties to the Great Council no
1202 IV  |               they walked behind them entreating them to grant them something.
1203 IX  |            all the Carthaginians thus entrenched as if in a fortress.~They
1204 I   |        despairing of Carthage, he had entrusted the government of the Mercenaries
1205 XI  |        garment suddenly seizes me and entwines me like a net! I perceive
1206 XIV |            kinds of vegetation formed entwinings and bowers; and here and
1207 II  |              be punished! He read the enumeration of their torments; they
1208 X   |             The white light seemed to envelop her in a silver mist, the
1209 XII |      atrocious in their devices. They envenomed the wounds by pouring into
1210 VIII|            would never rest. Spendius envied his energy; but in the management
1211 XIII|            last, that evening, as the environs of Khamon seemed to be deserted,
1212 XI  |              islands, do not raise my envy like the freshness of your
1213 VII |                The animal in its fury enwrapped him in the beating of its
1214 VIII|            himself more intrepid than Epaminondas. He smeared his cheeks with
1215 X   |         visited Samothrace, Pessinus, Ephesus, Thessaly, Judaea, and the
1216 VI  |        Transportation, massacres, and epidemics did not weaken it. It had
1217 VIII|           recoil simultaneously. Some Epirote shepherds ran upon the left
1218 X   |          established, as it were, the equality of a common sex between
1219 VI  |               of Africa. His revenues equalled those of the Barcas. No
1220 I   |              exacted by Lutatius, and equally with Rome they were regarded
1221 XIV |              it was necessary that an equilibrium should exist between the
1222 VII |               regularly at the winter equinox. But of fifteen hundred
1223 X   |             gods; he had observed the equinoxes with the armils placed in
1224 VI  |              lost three moons more in equipping the one hundred and twelve
1225 VII |                There are Gauls on the Eridanus, who ought to have been
1226 I   |            ascent of the mountains of Ersiphonia, the journey to Tartessus,
1227 IX  |              piercing shrieks, which, escaping through the gratings, caused
1228 VII |          leaped at the thought of the establishment of another Carthage down
1229 VI  |             were sold; governors were esteemed like wine-presses, according
1230 X   |               would not provide them, esteeming such an effort useless;
1231 VII |               the Jugrians and of the Estians, had carried off fifteen
1232 V   |            and with a rapid glance he estimated the weight of the golden
1233 IV  |           punishment of those who had estranged them from the Republic.~
1234 X   |          believed it to be round, and eternally falling through immensity
1235 VII |             the extreme boundaries of Ethiopia with excellent camels, new
1236 XII |                clubs and bodkins. The Ethiopians from the Bambotus had little
1237 VII |            Syracuse, Lilybaeum, Mount Etna, the plateau of Eryx, five
1238 VII |             will have it brought from Etruria, Brutium, whence you will,
1239 I   |              the people with the 3200 Euboic talents exacted by Lutatius,
1240 VII |             the name of Hamilcar amid eulogies and benedictions.~Along
1241 II  |               speak.~He began with an eulogy of the gods and the Republic;
1242 XI  |          absented himself in order to evade the obligation of fighting
1243 V   |         beyond. Exquisite scents were evaporating.~Matho glided over the pavement,
1244 VII |           ventured to tell him of the events which concerned himself.
1245 X   |          accompanied the bematists of Evergetes, who measure the sky by
1246 XII |             in a storm. The gods were evidently declaring against her.~Upon
1247 VIII|            and cracking his fingers:~“Evoe! Sun after run! I have worked
1248 XI  |              pikes. Beneath the rapid evolutions portions of the earth which
1249 V   |       accursed! Help, Taanach, Kroum, Ewa, Micipsa, Schaoul!”~And
1250 XII |              steps, he arrived at the exact spot where he had noticed
1251 IV  |              given way but for a last exaction, more outrageous than the
1252 VI  |               During the last war the exactions had been increased, so that
1253 IX  |          contrived their marches with exactness, had come together again.
1254 VIII|              the need that he felt of exalting himself and taking his revenge,
1255 XIV |         somewhat abated, they made an examination of the provisions. The Mercenaries,
1256 XI  |         herself quite alone.~Then she examined the zaimph; and when she
1257 VIII|          demanded the Suffet Hanno as examiner of his accounts.~He set
1258 IV  |       generals of Alexander furnished examples of marvellous good fortune?
1259 XIII|               rooms,—Salammbo’s alone excepted. He announced that six thousand
1260 IV  |          centre. When the tumult grew excessively violent Gisco would rest
1261 IX  |            overtures to Autaritus for exchanging all the Barbarians, if necessary,
1262 IX  |         statues on the tombs, and the excitement even spread to the people
1263 XII |            the new peril, so far from exciting frenzy, raised fears; and
1264 I   |           Mercenaries.~After a second excursion it was explained to them
1265 V   |             will not help you in this execrable crime!”~“But Tanith is your
1266 XII |              reasons which he had for execrating her returned to his recollection,
1267 IV  |             other, panting.~“Swear to execute all my commands and to follow
1268 VI  |             Taanach was worn out with executing her orders, and Schahabarim
1269 XIII|            colder and heavier than an executioner’s axe; the slave swooned
1270 VII |               arms as red as those of executioners; the sailors wore green
1271 IV  | bugle-flourishes that regulated their exercises. At last the Barbarians
1272 XIII|               with impunity only when exercising his wrath.~A smell of aromatics
1273 V   |               distended with terrible exertion. As they thrust out their
1274 XIII|             At last, exhausted by his exertions and anger, he fell into
1275 XIV |              thought that through the exhalations of the breath they could
1276 III |              depths of my being there exhale as it were hot fumes heavier
1277 VII |               They were inaccessible, exhaustless, infinite. His ancestors
1278 XIV |         profound was the carelessness exhibited that no one even thought
1279 II  |              even pearls are becoming exhorbitant; we have scarcely unguents
1280 XII |             of the towers pleaded the exigencies of the Republic and conjured
1281 XII |            almost the same time there existed differences between their
1282 XIV |             rose, as though they were expanding. They were lances in towers
1283 VII |          temple of Khamon. This great expanse of water was as round as
1284 VII |               single hostage! Did you expect that they would murder themselves
1285 V   |              and they could devise no expedient. He quickened his steps
1286 IV  |       continued, and the Suffet found expedients to remove every obstacle.~
1287 VII |           hundred kesitahs before the expedition to Utica.”~“They again!”
1288 VII |               tell anything. However, expeditions had ascended the rivers
1289 II  |          Libyan; and, to carry on the experiment, Spendius repeated the same
1290 VII |              in religious discipline, expert in strategy, pitiless and
1291 IX  |     consecrated to these goddesses in expiation of the horrors formerly
1292 I   |            death-rattle of the slaves expiring amid the broken cups. They
1293 IV  |              furnished them with such explanations that they retired without
1294 VII |              the resident Greeks, the export of silver to Arabia, where
1295 VIII|          ranks twice as deep, avoided exposing the velites against the
1296 XIII|               way or in what words to express it.~One evening when they
1297 I   |            them on the banquet, while expressing his surprise at not perceiving
1298 XIV |         followed the long chain which extends from the promontory of Hermaeum
1299 VIII|           situation, and Spendius, to extenuate his fault, or to revive
1300 XV  |             the terrace; and soon all external things were blotted out,
1301 XII |             phalarica on the point of extinction burned against a heap of
1302 VII |               Ptolemaeus—”~“Now he is extolling the Romans to us!” Some
1303 VI  |               which they succeeded in extracting. Then beyond the regions
1304 XIII|           which led him into terrible extravagances. He mentally summoned Salammbo
1305 VIII|              hemmed in, and unable to extricate themselves from the lines.
1306 VII |              Down there, Master;” and extricating herself from her veils,
1307 XV  |          remained wide open; from his eye-sockets there darted flames which
1308 XIII|              against their faces, and eyeless orbits seemed to weep tears
1309 VII |            Thymiamata to try to reach Eziongaber by doubling the Southern
1310 XII |         Satraps had sought, an almost fabulous stone, sufficient to purchase
1311 II  |           fields for the sick. He was facetious, dexterous, full of invention
1312 XIII|             nakedness of their bodies facilitating the infliction of wounds,
1313 V   |              upward with that strange facility which we experience in dreams.~
1314 IX  |           patricians belonging to his faction supported him but slackly.~
1315 XI  |           dogs. Soldiers were carting faggots, resting on their elbows
1316 XIII|             like gigantic trees.~Many fainted; others became inert and
1317 V   |               colour. Salammbo leaned fainting against the cushions of
1318 X   |     Schahabarim pronounced a word she falteringly repeated it.~He indicated
1319 VII |       recognised armour and furniture—familiar objects which nevertheless
1320 I   |        nations. Surprise at the novel fare excited the greed of the
1321 VII |             the purple factories, the farming of the tax on the resident
1322 XII |        desired. They were impelled by fascination or curiosity; and nomads
1323 VII |           that you do not know how to fasten it to her shoulders! Agathocles,
1324 XI  |              However, she felt that a fatality was surrounding her, that
1325 IV  |            the memorials of forgotten fatherlands.~Behind the Acropolis the
1326 XIII|           share in the sacrifice;—and fathers, whose children had died
1327 VI  |            receive them.~Hanno was so fatigued, so desperate—the loss of
1328 IX  |               marches were still more fatiguing to the Carthaginians, and
1329 I   |              with pink silky hair and fattened on olive lees,—a Carthaginian
1330 VII |               reverenced as being the favourites of the Sun.~Those of Megara
1331 V   |           dare to strike it, however, fearing that it might redouble its
1332 XII |               his troops. Several had fearlessly refused; and quite resolved
1333 VII |             he was filled with serene fearlessness and was proof against pity
1334 XII |               exciting frenzy, raised fears; and remembering Hamilcar’
1335 VIII|            strength of his army.~This feat of genius filled the soldiers
1336 X   |             the ancient, viscous, and fecund darkness, and the orbit
1337 XIV |            Tanith; and she, being now fecundated, opened up her vast bosom
1338 V   |      partitions. All these symbols of fecundation, these perfumes, radiations,
1339 X   |             No! no! she draws all her fecundity from the other! Do you not
1340 I   |              do not despise me for my feebleness! I have lived in the palace.
1341 XIV |               that having too many to feed he did not intend to keep
1342 XIII|             the beasts of burden were feeding; and in the distance the
1343 XIII|         watching; and he relieved his feelings. Like a mother finding her
1344 XIV |               manufactured out of the fellies of wheels; the soft blades
1345 XIV |             with his gentle voice and feminine figure, captivated her eyes
1346 III |            And every germ, O goddess! ferments in the dark depths of thy
1347 XIV |            limb;—and they still slew, ferociously and needlessly, to sate
1348 XI  |             Carthaginians.~The runner ferreted right and left. Then he
1349 V   |            Spendius was searching and ferreting, Matho was prostrate before
1350 III |      Baal-Khamon, the enlightener and fertiliser; I have sacrificed to the
1351 VII |           slaves’ school at Syracuse. Fetch the others!”~And the cooks,
1352 IV  |             highest price that it had fetched during the war; so that
1353 X   |              a national and a private fetish. It was believed to be the
1354 XIII|           Ceres; others brought their fetishes and amulets; forgotten idols
1355 II  |             emaciated, jaundiced with fever, and filthy with vermin,
1356 XIV |      precipices, sponged the sweat of fevers from his brow, and stole
1357 XIV |              man would reply: “I have fewer years to live! Strike to
1358 XIII|              the devout continued the fictitious funerals for their relatives
1359 XIII|               had attacked the Taenia fiercely in order to penetrate into
1360 I   |            houses, and its vague gods fiercer even than its people. In
1361 XIV |              the midst of it all.~The fiercest was driven by a Numidian
1362 X   |           were ringing, she could see fiery circles revolving, and in
1363 X   |               even employed baaras, a fiery-coloured root which drives back fatal
1364 XIV |             twelve hundred oxen, with fifty-three thousand nebels of pure
1365 II  |             fruits, butter wrapped in fig leaves, and snow in linen
1366 I   |              and a prison for slaves.~Fig-trees surrounded the kitchens;
1367 XV  |            Hamilcar in a violet tunic figured with gold vine branches,
1368 VII |              worn-out seams. Delicate filaments drawn from marine plants
1369 V   |          walls, and a hedge of silver filigree formed a wide semicircle
1370 VII |             glass phials, branches of filipendula, and rose-petals were scattered
1371 XIV |         another human face. His royal fillet, which was half unfastened,
1372 XIII|          choice should be made of the finest heads of hair among the
1373 XIII|     Barbarians, and the Samnites were finishing off the dying with blows
1374 XIII|           virgin’s face, crept on her fins, and the corpse of Tammouz
1375 X   |               earth was formed like a fir-cone; he believed it to be round,
1376 XII |            Then Matho rose. He took a firebrand which was still smoking,
1377 XIV |           plain shaking about flaming firebrands, which they had plucked
1378 VIII|        company of sixty Umbrians who, firm on their hams, their pikes
1379 XIII|             Like a mother finding her first-born that was lost, he threw
1380 XIII|        watched at the embrasures with fisherman’s nets, and when the Barbarian
1381 V   |              their legs. Through some fissures cut in the wall there fell
1382 II  |           thoughts in wine. After his fits of drunkenness he was more
1383 XII |              interstices in the upper flag-tones, assailed with anguish,
1384 XII |           strip of canvas caught on a flagpole, and trailing on the ground,
1385 XIII|               funeral-pile, which was flameless now, formed a pyramid of
1386 XIII|         purple, sheltered a petroleum flare; on Khamon’s, which was
1387 XI  |              at times broad lightning flashes; then the darkness increased;
1388 VIII|           battles in the sunlight—the flashing of swords troubles my sight;
1389 I   |             the trees, where numerous flat-roofed buildings might be seen,
1390 VII |               marine plants hung amid flax from Egypt, Greece, Taprobane
1391 XV  |             been proposed at first to flay him alive, to pour lead
1392 VI  |                be silent! Let them be flayed alive! No! presently!”~He
1393 II  |              hill, and pines and oaks flecked the sides of the precipices:
1394 II  |           stones; a woman with a blue fleece about her waist was watching
1395 XII |         picked up flints; all took to flght; and nothing more could
1396 V   |              great luminous moires to flicker on the wainscots.~“What
1397 VII |              to and fro. These lights flickered in the gusts of wind and
1398 VIII|                advanced into the mire flinging froth around him, and with
1399 XI  |           temples; the triremes shall float on the waves of blood! I
1400 II  |            voices.~Every day men came flocking in nearly naked, and with
1401 VII |              who were sentenced to be flogged standing upright against
1402 VII |        Negress threw herself upon the floor to kiss his feet; he raised
1403 VII |               of Baal, may your house flourish!” And through these people
1404 XI  |               in the air, and clarion flourishes sounded the charge. It was
1405 XIII|               re-enter Carthage; and, flourishing his terrible axe, ran over
1406 VII |              the depth of winter. The flowering pomegranates swelled against
1407 XIV |         overwhelm them with abuse. He foamed and twisted like a marine
1408 XI  |           memory of a gesture or of a fold of your garment suddenly
1409 XIII|            time, he called him by the fondest names and covered him with
1410 IV  |           contortions.~But many, from foolishness or prejudice, innocently
1411 II  |           seeking for the army by the footprints in the dust. In the morning
1412 V   |            flagon. The trace of a wet footstep might be seen beyond. Exquisite
1413 XIV |            forty elephants laden with forage and dried meat. The people
1414 XV  |               were shells filled with forcemeat; the pastry had symbolic
1415 VI  |               health, he cut into the forcemeats of cheese and marjoram,
1416 III |         elbows against her sides, her fore-arms straight and her hands open,
1417 V   |             and galleries, courts and fore-courts, and bounded by a low wall
1418 VI  |           inspired fear. Many mingled foreign practices with their native
1419 VII |          Hamilcar tolerated them from foresight even more than from scorn.
1420 XV  |           being enough for them, they foretold to him others that should
1421 VI  |      concealed out of the caves; they forged swords with the iron of
1422 XIV |        devotion; in the end he became forgetful of himself, being carried
1423 VII |             what prevented you? Ah! I forgot! all elephants are afraid
1424 XII |          handled cutlasses which were forked into several branches like
1425 III |               corpse to putrefy! Thou formest the pearls at the bottom
1426 XIV |     Carthaginians that their country, forsaking its walls, was coming to
1427 II  |        Barbarians pass.~The terraces, fortifications, and walls were hidden beneath
1428 XII |              fists in their rage; and forty-three Samnites, quite a “sacred
1429 XIV |             the last remnant of their foul portion was stolen from
1430 XIII|       henbane-drinkers crawled on all fours around the colossus, roaring
1431 IV  |              due.~Oxen, sheep, guinea fowl, fruit and lupins were sent
1432 I   |                Havas had lodged there fox six months without having
1433 XIII|           burn Carthage like a den of foxes.~Spendius went on obstinately
1434 IV  |              feet, or if at boxing to fracture his jaw with the very first
1435 VI  |               Utica beside the sea. A fragment remained before Tunis, the
1436 III |          spirit of the gods dwells in fragrant odours.”~Then the slave
1437 XIII|              by chains hanging from a framework, and which terminated in
1438 IX  |              with hatred, they turned frankly towards homicidal Moloch,
1439 VII |             around them; Giddenem was frantically kissing his sandals; Hamilcar
1440 IV  |            The Ancients had, in fact, fraudulently reduced them, and the corn
1441 VIII|           Malqua, sons of Barbarians, freed men. For reward he promised
1442 IV  |          thirty cubits high, built of freestone, and in two storys. It contained
1443 II  |               and viper’s venom which freezes the heart; Negro women,
1444 IX  |          seemed to live beneath their freshened paint, and to participate
1445 VII |            and were pulling them. The friction of the straps had formed
1446 I   |      buffaloes, hedgehogs with garum, fried grasshoppers, and preserved
1447 XIV |              and the great beasts, in fright, ran headlong into the gulf,
1448 II  |               of the Pataec gods that fringed the temple of Khamon. They
1449 III |              pyramidal cypress trees, fringing the temple of Eschmoun,
1450 XIII|               might be heard, and the frizzling of the fat as it fell upon
1451 IX  |             they had climbed upon the frontals of the buildings, screening
1452 VI  |             her her greatness, and it fronted her walls crouching in the
1453 VIII|       advanced into the mire flinging froth around him, and with great
1454 XIV |               and urgent streams; big frothy jets leaped from the corners
1455 III |             distributes the winds and fruitful dews. According as thou
1456 III |            silence and by the eternal fruitfulness,—mistress of the gloomy
1457 XIV |          souls, with the intention of fulfilling your promises?”~They assured
1458 X   |             be surrounded by the same fulgurations; and then the souls of the
1459 V   |          beneath their footsteps, and full-blown roses formed a hanging bower
1460 I   |           rending himself, now poured full-rayed upon Carthage the golden
1461 VI  |    comptrollers of the houses and the functionaries of the Republic in the baths;
1462 VII |               Journeys to speak. This functionary was enveloped in a brown,
1463 VII |              the two, which carried a funnel, being made to revolve upon
1464 IX  |               sunset into its hollow, funnel-shaped summit, when they perceived
1465 XV  |             hares, covered with their fur, appeared to be bounding
1466 XIV |      displaced; and swaying his heavy fur-covered shoulders, he reminded his
1467 III |         yellow face, which was deeply furrowed with wrinkles, was as if
1468 II  |            mountaineers, covered with furs like bears, looked at him
1469 XIV |            spots, grey sheets and red fuses. The horrible animals dug
1470 IX  |         understanding with Masgaba, a Gaetulian brigand who was seeking
1471 XIII|              into his mouth to form a gag, and hid him under the bed
1472 XV  |             the recollection of this, gaining precision by degrees, brought
1473 VII |         present corresponded with the gains and losses which had just
1474 VII |        distinguished by their rolling gait, while the men of agriculture
1475 V   |             the door and it opened.~A galley-shaped lamp hung burning in the
1476 II  |              languages, Greek, Latin, Gallic, Libyan and Balearic, the
1477 XII |             triumphant at the Olympic Games, Spendius, distraught with
1478 XIV |        phalanx with fury, entered the gap; they were being lost; Matho
1479 VI  |             or serpents’ heads,—which gaped towards the enemy for the
1480 II  |       elephants in the forests of the Garamantes. Afterwards he had entered
1481 XII |            and pressed forward when a Garamantian passed through the crowd;
1482 XII |        hunters from Malethut-Baal and Garaphos, clad in lions’ skins, and
1483 I   |             buffaloes, hedgehogs with garum, fried grasshoppers, and
1484 X   |         flowed down her cheeks in the gashes of her tattooing.~“No!”
1485 VI  |              holes in his tent, would gasp with exhaustion and melancholy.
1486 XII |            with entrails exposed, and gasping. The foot trod on slimy
1487 VI  |            Grand Assembly, or general gathering of all the rich. As to the
1488 VII |             you will make him run the gauntlet before sunset: tear him!”~
1489 VII |          their hands were enclosed in gauntlets without fingers, so as to
1490 VII |            restless and disturbed. He gazes at the sails passing far
1491 XIII|          hardest substance, and their gearing all of brass; they were
1492 I   |        scintillation flashed from the gem-incrusted dishes. The crateras with
1493 X   |              showed the gate of human generation in the Ram, and that of
1494 I   |              Aesculapius! and to you, genii of the fountains, light,
1495 III |         bottom of the sea!~“And every germ, O goddess! ferments in
1496 V   |            found among them as if the germ-receptacle had been suddenly hatched
1497 VI  |               You shall be married to gibbets that are perfectly new!
1498 XIII|               distinguish them in the giddy motion of the horrible arms.
1499 VII |               prows, and covered with gildings and mystic symbols. The
1500 I   |        slipped their fingers into the gills and brought them to the