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1501 II  |              in the wind.~The Greeks, girthed in their iron waist-belts,
1502 I   |               the Gaul, “when a woman gives drink to a soldier, it means
1503 XI  |           they displaced one another, glanced here and there. These were
1504 IX  |            the warm ashes in the full glare of the sun.~Sometimes they
1505 XIV |           amid the grass: ring-necked glareolas, Tartessus quails and Punic
1506 XIV |       temple-roofs shone black in the gleam of the lightning. Torrents
1507 XIV |         glitter with white flickering gleams. However, files of Clinabarians
1508 III |               slender and curved thou glidest through space like a mastless
1509 II  |              pikes, the helmets would glimmer for an instant, all would
1510 I   |             whose doors were opening, glimmerings of light could be seen.
1511 VII |           touch of a god. He caught a glimpse of a prolongation of his
1512 XIV |          souls.~Nevertheless they had glimpses, at an infinite depth, of
1513 XIV |              of the swords, made them glitter with white flickering gleams.
1514 I   |             were more limpid than the globules of rivers.” And she called
1515 VII |             by the urine of the lynx, glossopetrae which had fallen from the
1516 XIII|               inside assumed a darker glow, and burning flesh could
1517 II  |             of the Mercenaries; their gluttony, their thefts, their impiety,
1518 II  |            his eyes to drive away the gnats.~But a hundred paces further
1519 XIV |          their hunger increased; they gnawed their sword-belts, and the
1520 XI  |              hate you! Your very name gnaws me like remorse! You are
1521 IX  |          priests consecrated to these goddesses in expiation of the horrors
1522 III |         growest young again.~“Whither goest thou? Why dost thou change
1523 I   |               central path, beneath a gold-fringed purple awning, which reached
1524 XIII|           armourers, blacksmiths, and goldsmiths were intrusted with the
1525 VIII|           armour, and fifteen hundred gomers of meal, which was as much
1526 VII |           carried off fifteen hundred gomors of meal; at Marrazana they
1527 XIV |         obstanite! I have always been good-natured!”~A gigantic cross stood
1528 II  |               of Commagene, or melted goose-fat covered with snow and chopped
1529 XIII|           people. For three days they gorged themselves.~Their thirst,
1530 VI  |             on the top of a defile at Gorza, when the troops under Spendius
1531 XII |             of gum, rotten dates, and gourou nuts were crushed underfoot;
1532 III |            resumed:~“She inspires and governs the loves of men.”~“The
1533 XIV |            captivated her eyes by the grace of his person, and seemed
1534 VII |               that injures the flock! Gracious Tanith, to cripple slaves!
1535 X   |               it not for her that the grand-pontiff had once advanced amid the
1536 V   |           which were of glass and the grape-bunches of emerald, the rays from
1537 I   |              the cotton-plant; vines, grape-laden, grew up into the branches
1538 XIII|         against the wall, the ladders grappled them; and Barbarians’ heads
1539 I   |            mouths and craned necks to grasp the vague stories hovering
1540 VII |             before his eyes, and then grasping his clarion with outstretched
1541 XII |              hideous Auseans, who eat grass-hoppers; the Achyrmachidae, who
1542 XV  |            the mob developed with its gratification; the curving chains were
1543 XIII|             must accordingly be fully gratified. Precedents showed that
1544 XIV |             Hamilcar had done this to gratify the instincts of his army,
1545 XIV |               and the position of the graves was no longer visible.~All
1546 XI  |               him with a look full of gravity.~“As a reward for the services
1547 VII |            trireme leaped forward; it grazed the idol set up at the corner
1548 XIII|           taking fat from the dead to grease their machines, while others
1549 XIII|            They mended their weapons, greased their hair, and washed their
1550 XIV |                Often, at times of the greatest weariness, when they were
1551 XII |            the same evening. They ate greedily. Then when they were strengthened
1552 VI  |             the principal men came to greet him. He had himself taken
1553 VI  |               down the fugitives like greyhounds pursuing hares. This change
1554 XII |           never to wake again.~In the greyness of the dawn some soldiers
1555 X   |         longer love me! you hide your griefs from me, you despise the
1556 X   |            even seemed to take joy in grieving her by the revelation of
1557 XIII|               on the rampart dying in grievous convulsions.~Hamilcar sent
1558 X   |                 With a smile like the grimace of an old ape, Taanach resumed
1559 II  |            jaws twisted into horrible grimaces; there were some enormous
1560 I   |       reflections with amazement, and grimacing to make themselves laugh.
1561 XII |               beast-like profiles and grinning with idiotic laughter—wretches
1562 VII |             other elbow with a hollow groan; and the Chief of Farms
1563 II  |             Spendius used to hear him groaning and talking to himself.~
1564 XIII|              a spring, and sliding in grooves impelled the arrows.~The
1565 XI  |              We shall live in crystal grottoes cut out at the foot of the
1566 III |               ever ill each time thou growest young again.~“Whither goest
1567 XIV |                in floods; the thunder growled; it was the voice of Moloch;
1568 XI  |            was perhaps something of a grudge against Matho, whether on
1569 VIII|              Carthaginians obeyed him grudgingly, so much pleasure did they
1570 X   |              haste, and the old slave grumbled:~“Well! well! Mistress!—
1571 VIII|            nineteen hundred remaining guardsmen of the Legion, covered with
1572 XIV |         morning or than the face of a guest. He would bring for her
1573 VI  |               receive such well-armed guests. Hanno was furious. At last
1574 IV  |            that was due.~Oxen, sheep, guinea fowl, fruit and lupins were
1575 XIV |            Tartessus quails and Punic guinea-fowl. The garden, long uncultivated,
1576 I   |               across the tables. They gulped down all the Greek wines
1577 II  |               little eyes, with their gummed lashes, shone with a hard
1578 V   |              massacre, and grief! May Gurzil, god of battles, rend you!
1579 XIV |         suddenly disappeared before a gust of wind, discovering the
1580 VII |               lights flickered in the gusts of wind and reddened the
1581 XIV |              stones. Sometimes when a gypaetus was perched on a corpse,
1582 XII |             and the vermilion-painted Gysantians, who eat apes.~All were
1583 VI  |              burst out laughing: “Ah! ha! my fine fellows of Sicca!
1584 XIV |    ploughshares; they cut, hewed, and hacked with the scythes on their
1585 IX  |               junipers, Thapitis, and Hagour sent embassies to him. The
1586 XIV |            entirely disappeared. They hailed those in front to make them
1587 XIII|             upon the Pataec gods, and hair-cloths around the altars; and attempts
1588 XIV |        porcupine, and closer than the hairs of a brush. But they were
1589 I   |              them were still smoking; half-burned carcases of apes dropped
1590 XI  |           carved.~From time to time a half-calcined piece of wall would be found
1591 IV  |           enormous fronts, blackened, half-covered with flowers, and broadly
1592 XI  |             of dromedaries and mules. Half-gnawed carrion blocked the streets.~
1593 I   |                which was as rosy as a half-open pomegranate. On her breast
1594 VII |               their silver horns;—and half-painted, motionless, and rotten
1595 XIV |           lacked space; they thronged half-rearing together, and their tusks
1596 II  |          mouth to check his sobs, and half-swooning with intoxication, let go
1597 XIV |              and clearness of dreams. Hallucinations came suddenly upon them;
1598 VI  |            There were deaths at every halting-place; several times they believed
1599 XII |          hatchet, a pomegranate, or a hammer; those who had served in
1600 XIV |               spits, larding-pins and hammers, over the heads of the Numidians;
1601 VI  |             crushed such a multitude, hampered as it was with herds and
1602 VIII|              strove to blind them, to hamstring them; others would slip
1603 XIII|          bulls’ necks, or else stags’ hamstrings, were commonly employed
1604 IX  |         themselves brought thither in hand-barrows; many took the precaution
1605 XI  |                The slave showed her a handful of gold pieces. She rushed
1606 XII |           yielding copper blade. They handled cutlasses which were forked
1607 I   |            with his head brushing the handles of his javelins, he was
1608 XII |        re-read it. For seven hours he harangued.~He reminded the Mercenaries
1609 IV  |             Carthage. Conventions and harangues never ceased. Every one
1610 XIV |                Then he set himself to harass them. He would arrive and
1611 XIII|             selected had to be of the hardest substance, and their gearing
1612 VII |          legions tremble and whom she hardly knew, terrified her like
1613 VII |              is because they were not hardy,” said the Suffet, laughing. “
1614 IV  |           with supplies of barley and harness, and barracks for twenty
1615 VIII|            the ranks; he treated them harshly, made them run, leap, ascend
1616     | hast
1617 XIV |         withdrew.~But he bore himself haughtily towards the Hundred. He
1618 XI  |               you crushed me with the haughtiness of your beauty! ’Tis my
1619 XIV |             no ropes strong enough to haul him up to the top of the
1620 XIII|               back. The Carthaginians hauled in order to pull it up;
1621 XIII|          dragging it with both hands, hauling it with ropes, and pushing
1622 XIII|             had guessed all, and this haunting thought revived the jealousies
1623 X   |          blended together in a bluish haze; not a sound was to be heard,
1624 I   |            beard, the radiancy of his head-dress, and his triple necklace
1625 VII |          never seen him.~But men with head-dresses like the Sphinx’s, and furnished
1626 XV  |         carbuncle pendants. She had a headdress made of peacock’s feathers
1627 VI  |           himself that he was in good health, he cut into the forcemeats
1628 VI  |          decreed the enrolment of all healthy citizens, he placed catapults
1629 VI  |               threw it into a corner, heaping up fleeces above it. A murmuring
1630 I   |             camps, and of continually hearing the trumpet? But you will
1631 IV  |            terraces clay furnaces for heating the pickle were visible.~
1632 IX  |            should he ever return.~The heats of the month of Eloul, which
1633 VI  |               the breeze.~Matho would heave deep sighs. He would lie
1634 III |               while the sigh that she heaved swelled her bosom, and gave
1635 V   |              of the cliff, lit up the heavens with a great red brightness,
1636 IX  |           funeral pile, an eagle flew heavenwards as a symbol of the resurrection
1637 I   |             she-camels and buffaloes, hedgehogs with garum, fried grasshoppers,
1638 I   |       inspired by men. The Barbarians heeded them not, but listened continually
1639 VII |          intrepid tone.~Then, without heeding the precedent or the pecuniary
1640 XIII|               their chins; only their helmet-plumes could be seen. At last when
1641 VI  |           constellation were fatal or helpful, sacrifices were offered
1642 VIII|       Clinabarians. All the rest were hemmed in, and unable to extricate
1643 XIII|             the funeral-pile that the hems of their cloaks brushed
1644 I   |              The conical roofs of the heptagonal temples, the staircases,
1645 VII |          Locri, of Metapontum, and of Heraclea! I have burnt all their
1646 VI  |               hampered as it was with herds and women. Moreover, they
1647 VII |               runs bare-footed like a herdsman along the brinks of precipices.”~“
1648 XV  |           eyelids, who symbolised the hermaphrodism of the Divinity, received
1649 III |              that it means death? The hermaphrodite Baals are unveiled to us
1650 III |             the bed more erect than a Hermes, and with her eyelids cast
1651 VII |             staggering like a wounded heron:~“And you, who did that
1652     | hers
1653 III |               to her! I had long been hesitating; I am devoured with curiosity
1654 XIV |               ploughshares; they cut, hewed, and hacked with the scythes
1655 VII |             hall: Istatten, Subeldia, Hictamon, Yeoubas and others. They
1656 XIV |              be spread.~They were now hideously lean; their skin was overlaid
1657 XIII|          little huts covered with raw hides and stuffed with wrack;
1658 VIII|             of fortune, replacing the hierarchy of race, still kept the
1659 XIV |     inhabitants of Utica as subjects.~Hiero, who was ruling at Syracuse,
1660 VIII|               sword in them up to the hilt, and perish crushed to death;
1661 XIV |           Others were seated on their hind-quarters and staring before them,
1662 XIII|          breast, and the claws of the hinder ones fell beneath his knees.~
1663 IX  |               hommers of wheat, three hins of millet, and twelve betzas
1664 XIV |            massed into the species of hippodrome formed by the mountain about
1665 XII |        captives. A Samian trader, one Hipponax, coming from Carthage, had
1666 IX  |            money were lacking for the hire of other Mercenaries. As
1667 IX  |             Many gained large sums by hiring out bows.~Then all these
1668 I   |               just been awaked by the hissing of his voice, and did not
1669 I   |               the cup and related his history. He was called Spendius.
1670 V   |            for there was the dread of hitting the zaimph), passed over
1671 VII |            was like the interior of a hive. They were brimful of myrobalan,
1672 IX  |          their houses; the poor their hive-shaped huts, with the shells on
1673 XI  |             blacker, and their voices hoarser. Matho, who walked before
1674 IX  |          collecting their flocks, and hoisting their baggage upon asses,
1675 II  |             promised to the gods?—She holds me fast by a chain which
1676 I   |              about to return to their homes with the payment for their
1677 IX  |           they turned frankly towards homicidal Moloch, and all forsook
1678 IX  |               per man more than ten k’hommers of wheat, three hins of
1679 VI  |               a large jar filled with honey-coloured water, into which he would
1680 I   |             fruit were crumbling upon honeycombs, and they had not forgotten
1681 VII |             of superior understanding honoured these abaddirs, which had
1682 IX  |              him new prerogatives and honours.~He had begged the Ancients
1683 XIII|                and at once raised the hood which screened his face.~“
1684 I   |        payment for their blood in the hoods of their cloaks. But as
1685 XIV |             sticks. The Carthaginians hooted, and shouted to them that
1686 VIII|            were fleeing! A tremendous hooting broke out from among the
1687 XIII|             garments; the liquid lead hopped on their helmets and made
1688 XIII|              beam which was suspended horizontally by chains hanging from a
1689 XIV |         greasy tingling which induced horripilation. Afterwards he said to them:~“
1690 X   |              existence, and Salammbo, horror-stricken at herself, regretted that
1691 XIII|             caps containing twists of horse-hair stood at the extremities
1692 IV  |             they perceived a troop of horse-men galloping on horses without
1693 VI  |            gourds, oysters with eggs, horse-radishes, truffles, and brochettes
1694 VII |              without keeping a single hostage! Did you expect that they
1695 IV  |           lake.~At first they made no hostile announcement. Several approached
1696 XII |               Republic with immediate hostilities unless she gave twelve hundred
1697 VI  |             exterminated the ravenous hounds! Blessings on the Republic!
1698 XV  |            streets. It reached to the house-tops, and extended in long files
1699 I   |               their children into the households of the great in order to
1700 XIII|             be giving way beneath the howlings of terror and mystic voluptuousness.
1701 VII |               red masses writhed with howls at the foot of the trees.
1702 II  |            tried to divert himself at huckle-bones, and lost the gold plates
1703 XV  |               he had no appearance of humanity left; he was a long, perfectly
1704 X   |               mist, the prints of her humid steps shone upon the flag-stones,
1705 X   |               Their tears compose its humidity; ’tis a dark abode full
1706 XIV |             learn.~Hanno, desiring to humiliate his rival, did not hesitate.
1707 XII |         mouths to show that they were hungry.~The confusion of weapons
1708 I   |        combats, their travels and the hunting in their native lands. They
1709 III |             summit of the Acropolis.~“Hush!” cried Salammbo.~“What
1710 XIII|             mad! enough! enough!” And hustling away the three priests and
1711 III |            wings. The grinding of the hydraulic wheels which conveyed water
1712 VI  |         wooden earrings, and boots of hyena skin; and standing on the
1713 IV  |             to go into caves to catch hyenas alive, and amuse themselves
1714 II  |              politeness and audacious hypocrisy even sought to induce them
1715 XIII|            and congenerous races: the Iarbal of Libya, the Adramelech
1716 XI  |               West to the conquest of Iberia; and, without asking Narr’
1717 VII |           like splashes of milk, blue icicles, and silver dust, and shed
1718 IV  |      confounded with the sun, was the ideal which shone on the horizon
1719 VII |               thousand odious things, ignominies from which he had turned
1720 IV  |       inspected them, but being quite ignorant of his language they made
1721 II  |                               CHAPTER II~AT SICCA~Two days afterwards
1722 III |                               CHAPTER III~SALAMMBO~The moon was rising
1723 XIV |        encountered the storm in their ill-closed tents; and they were still
1724 VIII|              and he admitted those of ill-repute, the scum of Malqua, sons
1725 I   |               them prodigious and but ill-rewarded. They showed one another
1726 I   |             reduction. But at present ill-will was caused by the inability
1727 VIII|           explained everything by the illusions of the mirage. Nevertheless
1728 XIV |        helepolis; Matho had traced an imaginary line from his tent to Megara,
1729 I   |         stories hovering before their imaginations, through the dimness of
1730 IX  |             performed terrible deeds, imagining that he was thus obeying
1731 X   |               of a star; all kinds of imaginings attracted her and terrified
1732 I   |             stones, their variegation imitating the scales of the murena.
1733 VII |             and together traverse the immensities.~The torches, however, which
1734 VI  |               afterwards he was still immersed in the oil of cinnamomum
1735 IV  |             with enormous bellies, or immoderately flattened, opening their
1736 VII |              the better apprehend the immutable spirit which outward appearances
1737 III |        turnest thou, supported by the impalpable ether! It brightens about
1738 III |              A genius,” she resumed, “impels me to this love. I have
1739 IV  |               the ergastulum, was but imperfectly acquainted with the different
1740 VIII|           first to wait; then with an imperious gesture he carried off the
1741 XIV |          Never had his genius been so impetuous and fertile. For five moons
1742 V   |               light himself.~“What an impious man you are!” murmured Matho,
1743 VII |               which she found herself implicated. This man, who made legions
1744 IX  |             hands full of provisions, implored his protection, kissed his
1745 XIV |               towards the Punic tents imploring mercy with uplifted arms.~
1746 IX  |                The sacrifices already imposed had been heavy enough! and
1747 IV  |               agreed, and this one is imposing on you! Remember the Island
1748 XIV |        viscous skin gave a rude, soft impression to the touch, a greasy tingling
1749 XIII|       satisfied with their invention, improved upon it; they hurled all
1750 VII |            misfortune!” said Kapouras impudently.~“Have they not gone over
1751 XIII|             could be looked upon with impunity only when exercising his
1752 IX  |     themselves suspect how much their inaction alarmed the Punic army.~
1753 V   |          something extraordinary. The inadequacy of the means for preventing
1754 XIV |               trodden on as though by inadvertence; those in the last throes
1755 XIV |            and practised all kinds of incantations. Just now their only feeling
1756 VI  |          joints. He was consumed with incessant thirst, but the yellow-robed
1757 IX  |              the six catapults rolled incessantly throughout the length of
1758 VII |               Others had their beards inclosed in little bags of violet
1759 IX  |           participated in it; she was included in the same ill will; she
1760 III |         contained senseless monsters, incoherent portions of the forms to
1761 XI  |            clear horizon, with shapes incoherently carved.~From time to time
1762 XIII|             in vinegar to render them incombustible. The women and children
1763 V   |              azure like eagles. Their incomplete or multiplied limbs were
1764 VI  |              men (the losses had been inconsiderable),—and they were re-forming
1765 XIII|              ever.~With inconceivable inconsistency he could not forgive the
1766 IX  |               death. He reckoned upon incorporating the best of them with his
1767 IX  |               of hippopotamus leather incrusted with pebbles. It was Autaritus’
1768 I   |               excessive, and he would incur nearly the whole.~Proud
1769 II  |               that the government had incurred; so much for repairing the
1770 IV  |              that the Republic should indemnify them for their horses; one
1771 XII |             the allied provinces, the independent hordes, those who execrated
1772 X   |             the edge of the waves.~An indeterminate dread restrained her; she
1773 VII |              Others had returned from India with peacocks, pepper, and
1774 VI  |              doubt, who came from the Indies) he ordered them all to
1775 VI  |             could not understand such indifference, suspected the Greek of
1776 VIII|            between the two armies, an indiscretion which he could not commit
1777 XI  |             unite them immediately in indissoluble betrothal. A lance was placed
1778 I   |              these hollow globes were indistinctly filled with reddish lights,
1779 IX  |            served out to the soldiers individually, without troubling about
1780 IX  |            shadows, where at the most indolent hour of the day they used
1781 XIV |               a greasy tingling which induced horripilation. Afterwards
1782 VII |            silent!” And they began to indulge in recriminations respecting
1783 XII |           enfeeblement. Hamilcar, not indulging his pride by holding the
1784 XIV |             not to distrust him.~This inertness veiled skilful manoeuvres.
1785 IV  |              it, that they thought it inexhaustible; Gisco must have buried
1786 XIV |           victory had arrived in some inexplicable way at the third hour of
1787 XII |          would crush them. This would infallibly happen.~Thus no means presented
1788 XIII|            priests, looked like great infants in swaddling clothes with
1789 X   |             that very account full of infatuation and fervour. He no longer
1790 XIII|              looked greyish, like the infected rag hanging to his sides;
1791 XIV |         yellow teeth; they exhaled an infectious odour; they might have been
1792 XIII|             ground.~Then came all the inferior forms of the Divinity: Baal-Samin,
1793 X   |             the sun above the moon he inferred the predominance of Baal,
1794 XIV |           grass; the children and the infirm, that were met with, were
1795 X   |           sent for him.~The better to inflame her heart he reported to
1796 XV  |          mischief that they could not inflict upon him.~It was atrocious,
1797 XIII|               bodies facilitating the infliction of wounds, the Carthaginians
1798 XIII|              prevent their particular influences from disturbing his, diversely
1799 XII |             coming from Carthage, had informed them that a plot was being
1800 VII |              say that we must be more ingenious or more terrible! If the
1801 X   |             at once of refinement and ingenuity.~Over a first delicate and
1802 XIII|            she was led by her extreme ingenuousness to attach but little importance
1803 I   |        Ancestor’s Chamber there is an ingot of gold beneath every flagstone;
1804 VI  |               forth from the reeds to inhale the breeze.~Matho would
1805 XII |               had sent them away with injunctions to fight no more against
1806 VII |                Cursed be the dog that injures the flock! Gracious Tanith,
1807 IX  |           would do one another mutual injury in the insufficiency of
1808 XIV |        against Matho, although he was innocent of their disaster; but it
1809 IV  |             foolishness or prejudice, innocently believed that all the Carthaginians
1810 XII |             hem in the Barbarians, an inopportune and even dangerous operation.
1811 VI  |               he brandished a pike of inordinate size, which spread out at
1812 VII |      melancholy, he rejects bread, he inquires about the gods, and he wishes
1813 XIII|           pretence of making military inquiries. He could not understand
1814 VII |             his misfortune; and in an inquisitorial fit he visited the sheds
1815 V   |           Lead me!”~“It is a piece of insanity!” Spendius kept saying. “
1816 XIV |           yield to these outbursts of insatiable hatred or was it a refinement
1817 VII |               sheeps’ shoulder-blades inscribed with delicate writing. He
1818 XIV |       Carthage, and which looked like inscriptions on columns.~They placed
1819 XIII|               slave was amazed at her insensibility.~Hamilcar’s daughter no
1820 XIV |             for a long time in rapid, insidious, and even violent fashion,
1821 XI  |              I have not forgotten the insolence of your large tranquil eyes,
1822 II  |       remained there; it would become insolvent. Withdraw! The Republic
1823 X   |                His days were spent in inspecting the censers, the gold vases,
1824 VII |             of the gardens to make an inspection in their cottages, of the
1825 VI  |            were elaborated, chose the inspectors of the exchequer, who on
1826 V   |                whispered Spendius. An inspiration guided him. He drew Matho
1827 III |           half yielding resumed:~“She inspires and governs the loves of
1828 XIII|     themselves in the houses. In many instances the owners had deserted
1829 II  |             his helmet and sword, and instantly all was ready. Those who
1830 IX  |            his own troops and of thus instigating defections. But hatred swept
1831 XIV |              done this to gratify the instincts of his army, and, by means
1832 IX  |           against the elephants Matho instituted a corps of cataphract cavalry,
1833 VI  |              pike. But for want of an instructor they had disputes about
1834 IV  |        rapidly like a sling; the iron instrument caught fast, and they began
1835 XIII|           over to the men in red. The instrument-players sometimes stopped through
1836 IV  |          Salammbo had indirectly been insulted. These rich men were a kind
1837 XIII|        themselves upon the flesh;—and insults might be read on corpses
1838 XIV |             some appeared to be still intact; others were completely
1839 III |              the crash of the thunder intelligent creatures awoke. Then Eschmoun
1840 XIV |              pole in token of pacific intentions. The Carthaginian disappeared.
1841 IV  |             would join the nomads and intercept the commerce of the desert.
1842 VII |           which might be derived from interesting them in the Republic by
1843 VII |           question one another. Their interests, their existence, were attacked
1844 VIII|             of trees, pieces of rock, interlacings of thorn, and stone walls;
1845 XII |              make the necessity of an interminable battle understood by all
1846 XI  |              a state of stupor to the intermittent shouts of the sentinels
1847 VIII|       trapezium, a pyramid. A twofold internal movement went on continually
1848 II  |       together with the Suffet. A few interposed, saying that they ought
1849 I   |            off, and he volunteered to interpret them.~“Speak!” said Matho.~“
1850 XII |             the Garamantians went and interred them on the shore so that
1851 II  |              fish.~Sometimes he would interrupt himself, and utter a hoarse
1852 IX  |           prolonged modulations, with interruptions and alternations like echoes
1853 XII |           with difficulty through the interstices in the upper flag-tones,
1854 IV  |               Barbarians accepted his intervention. One morning they saw the
1855 XIII|               summoned Salammbo to an interview; then he waited. She did
1856 VIII|            property was sold; and, to intimidate the avarice of the rest,
1857 XI  |           beating. The air of command intimidated him.~“Follow me!” he said.~
1858 VII |              standing, simultaneously intoned a hymn, and their voices—
1859 VIII|               ferocious they had been intoxicated with a mixture of pepper,
1860 VII |            with a Roman custom lately introduced into Carthage, a man was
1861 XII |          tents were like huts amid an inundation, stretched as far as the
1862 XIII|               the siege. He sought to invent terrible machines such as
1863 II  |           wealth of the soil and such inventions of wisdom dazzled them.~
1864 VII |      precipices.”~“Speak! speak!”~“He invents snares for wild beasts.
1865 VII |            protection of the Sun, was inviolate so long as the assembly
1866 XIV |              proof of love, a sort of invitation.~Nevertheless Hamilcar’s
1867 II  |              gods, or some resistless invocation?”~“For what purpose?” asked
1868 VII |             he began to cry aloud and invoke all the Baals. It was not
1869 XIV |             when he stooped down, had involved him in it.~Then he was fastened
1870 XIII|             against what was the most invulnerable place in the wall, which
1871 XIV |               straight, and then bent inwards; upon this, the two sections
1872 I   |           like chariots of war, while Ionian terminations conflicted
1873 XIII|           flame mirrored in it formed irisated lights. He grew pale and
1874 VII |            had been brought in by the iron-mines of Annaba, the coral fisheries,
1875 VII |            lay on the ground, with an ironic glance.~“You have done well,
1876 XV  |             filthy abuse mingled with ironical encouragements and imprecations;
1877 XIV |             of the heaps, which in an irregular fashion embossed the plain,
1878 VII |            the Suffet’s gardens, were irregularly separated from one another
1879 II  |             the slave, remaining ever irresolute and in an unconquerable
1880 XI  |             had reached a supreme and irrevocable moment, and making an effort
1881 XII |               to look for! He was now irrevocably lost.~He immediately dismissed
1882 I   |          about it, but the other said irritably, “Leave me! leave me!”~“
1883 VIII|              a woman and smiled in an irritating manner as he stroked the
1884 IX  |               in the neighbourhood of Ischiil, near the frontiers of Narr’
1885 XII |            rainy sky at the end of an islet-covered gulf.~Vociferations arose,
1886 VII |              party below in the hall: Istatten, Subeldia, Hictamon, Yeoubas
1887 IX  |          Mercenaries, who were men of Italiote or Greek race; and the offer
1888 IV  |         helmets. Amid serving men and itinerant vendors there moved women
1889 IV  |                               CHAPTER IV~BENEATH THE WALLS OF CARTHAGE~
1890 VII |   plough-share, would appear, and the ivory-headed horse, rearing both its
1891 XI  |              crossed one another like ivy on the branches of a tree.
1892 IX  |                               CHAPTER IX~IN THE FIELD~Hamilcar had
1893 IV  |             of towns, women that were jaded with love so long as they
1894 VI  |         delicious rest beside a large jar filled with honey-coloured
1895 II  |            water-carriers, emaciated, jaundiced with fever, and filthy with
1896 XIII|          haunting thought revived the jealousies of his impotence. He accused
1897 XI  |            tried to thrust him off by jerking her arms. He opened his
1898 XIII|         succession with little abrupt jerks. Then the instruments were
1899 VII |              s followers thought this jest so good that they burst
1900 XIII|         helmets with their left arms, joining them together at the edges
1901 VIII|               applied the latter to a joint in the head, and with all
1902 VII |               and rose as high as the joists of the roof along the four
1903 XIII|             them to the heart!” These jokes, which were ever the same,
1904 XI  |            the war were finished, and joyful laughs broke from him. The
1905 VII |          beneath your gaze, O father, joyfulness and a new existence will
1906 XIII|           burst forth celebrating the joys of death and of new birth
1907 VII |             into the countries of the Jugrians and of the Estians, had
1908 I   |          casks, with the wines of the jujube, cinnamomum and lotus. There
1909 V   |          entered through the hedge of jujube-trees, beating down the branches
1910 XIII|       beginning to clap his hands and jump, when Hamilcar took him
1911 XI  |               stretched out a leg and jumped in order to pass over them.~
1912 XIII|                and from this point of junction there branched off at right
1913 I   |              their own anger. At this juncture they collected together
1914 VII |           upon twenty-four pillars of juniper, from which slender interlacing
1915 IX  |           temple, Djeraado fertile in junipers, Thapitis, and Hagour sent
1916 VI  |               spit upon the images of Jupiter Olympius; nevertheless he
1917 IV  |             all was finished and that justice was about to be done to
1918 VI  |            minds of the Barbarians to justify its possession; such were
1919 VIII|               sharp lanceheads, which jutted out unevenly around them,
1920 XI  |             Sometimes palm-wood beams jutting out from the walls obliged
1921 IX  |            left per man more than ten k’hommers of wheat, three
1922 XV  |              through the streets.~The Kedeschim, with painted eyelids, who
1923 VII |             standing upright on their keels, with lofty poops and swelling
1924 VII |             him, as it were, with his keen gaze: “No one yet suspects?”~
1925 XI  |            the air is so mild that it keeps you from dying. Oh! I shall
1926 VII |            Abdalonim, with one of the keys hanging at his girdle, opened
1927 XIII|            with them and with a great kick shut the door behind him.~
1928 XIII|           Adramelech of Chaldaea, the Kijun of the Syrians; Derceto,
1929 XIV |           this devotion by a thousand kindnesses.~They exchanged their necklaces
1930 VII |             apes, he had seen immense kingdoms, wherein the pettiest utensils
1931 X   |           seen even by the walls. The kinnor-player squatted behind the door
1932 XIII|       eight-stringed scheminiths, the kinnors which had ten strings, and
1933 VII |               went in.~Naked men were kneading pastes, crushing herbs,
1934 XIV |             daggers fastened to their knee-caps, they had at the extremity
1935 X   |              added.~“No!”~He made her kneel down, and keeping his left
1936 XIV |           stood out straight from the knemides; skeletons still wore their
1937 XV  |              his belt that species of knife which they employed for
1938 VII |               them, Master.”~Hamilcar knit his brows; then he signed
1939 VI  |              carobs were shining like knobs of coral; vine branches
1940 VII |               be heard creaking; dull knockings resounded; sometimes a sharp
1941 IV  |           tied his wrists with a slip knot; another knocked him down,
1942 III |      sacrilege; be satisfied with the knowledge that you possess!”~She fell
1943 XIII|             mantles with necklaces of koukouphas’ heads and pointed tiaras,
1944 V   |              accursed! Help, Taanach, Kroum, Ewa, Micipsa, Schaoul!”~
1945 IV  |               bleeding scab; he was a labourer from Hippo-Zarytus. Hootings
1946 VII |             fear of the soldiers. The labourers, who were clad in animals’
1947 X   |           five hundred pillars of the labyrinth of Lemnos revolve, and the
1948 II  |             an ample black cloak with laced double-sleeves. But the
1949 VII |      Bactriana, and the short bars of Lacedaemon; many were covered with
1950 IX  |              sell them; and some fair Lacedaemonian women were taken by New
1951 VII |           were joined together with a lacing of gold which extended from
1952 XIV |             centre of the plain. They lacked space; they thronged half-rearing
1953 IV  |          ought to have what your face lacks!” and tearing off his tunic
1954 XI  |              at random, seeking for a ladder, a rope, a stone, something
1955 VI  |               the jewels of the Punic ladies. The Libyans also protested.
1956 II  |              isolated detachments, or lagged behind one another at long
1957 XIII|               with “vines”; they were lambs, or they were going to gather
1958 XIII|           shrieked like the women who lament at funerals. “Take him away
1959 I   |          resumed:~“Ah! poor Carthage! lamentable city! No longer hast thou
1960 XIII|    immediately known in Carthage, and lamentations resounded. The cries of
1961 XIII|            tried to frighten him with Lamia, a Cyrenian ogress.~“But
1962 XI  |             It was lighted by a large lamp-holder shaped like a lotus and
1963 XII |               the mountain except the lance-points projecting above the edge
1964 VIII|             appeared amid long, sharp lanceheads, which jutted out unevenly
1965 XIII|               through the channel and landed near the arsenal, the entrance
1966 XV  |           appeared again on the first landing. Salammbo was walking slowly
1967 X   |              then.~“At first you will languish as light as a vapour hovering
1968 III |               Salammbo grew weak. She languished the whole day long, and
1969 I   |             the distance a few ships’-lanterns were gliding across the
1970 VI  |            sea, flat as a pavement of lapis-lazuli, ascended by insensible
1971 XIV |        Carthage began to throw spits, larding-pins and hammers, over the heads
1972 VI  |               could be heard; crested larks were hopping about, and
1973 XI  |               who was as hideous as a larva and nearly as terrible as
1974 XI  |              She was overwhelmed with lassitude; and she listened in a state
1975 VII |               the foam around it, the lateen-yard quite square and the sail
1976 XII |          washed by the waves. But the Latins were grieved that they could
1977 XI  |             were finished, and joyful laughs broke from him. The Mercenaries,
1978 XIII|             fire of aloes, cedar, and laurel was burning between the
1979 XIII|            eyeballs, or else would be lavish of words, and the reproaches
1980 VII |          Salammbo desired money to be lavished for the better reception
1981 VII |              of narwhal’s-horn,—for a law which was always observed
1982 I   |         gazelles fled bleating on the lawns; the sun was setting, and
1983 XI  |          curiosity; and, like a child laying his hand upon a strange
1984 XIV |           fury and joy. Several, from laziness or prudence, had remained
1985 VII |             then had the thieves, the lazy, and the mutinous shown
1986 XIII|        Barbarians simultaneously; the leaden-tubed trumpets pealed, and the
1987 VIII|             men on each side. All the leaders of all the files appeared
1988 XIV |                marked the shadow of a leaf upon the ground. Domestic
1989 XI  |             vanished mansion; and the leafless olive trees looked at a
1990 II  |              He was to be seen in the leafy taverns discoursing in the
1991 II  |              silphium, for you are in league with the nomads on the Cyrenian
1992 VII |           were suspected of perpetual leanings towards the people or towards
1993 VIII|               his sides rose with the leapings of his heart. He picked
1994 XII |         believed him lost; so that on learning his victory they felt a
1995 XII |          there was a stir. The Suffet learnt this, and he had no assistance
1996 XII |            shoulders, and they led in leashes enormous dogs, which were
1997 I   |         whiter than marble, threw the leavings of their plates behind them,
1998 XIV |              to time like an enormous leech.~Then all paused. The Carthaginians
1999 I   |            hair and fattened on olive lees,—a Carthaginian dish held
2000 I   |              soon have swept away the legionaries. Gisco shrugged his shoulders