Chapter

3003 V   |         Taanach, Kroum, Ewa, Micipsa, Schaoul!”~And the scared face of
3004 I   |              Tammouz, Eloul, Tischri, Schebar! Ah! have pity on me, goddess!”~
3005 VII |           gently. It was the month of Schebaz and the depth of winter.
3006 XIII|           victims. The eight-stringed scheminiths, the kinnors which had ten
3007 VII |            detaining the incense from Schesbar; Syracuse, Elathia, Corsica,
3008 VII |            sending you to the slaves’ school at Syracuse. Fetch the others!”~
3009 XIII|      semicircle, looked like a silver scimitar lying at the base of the
3010 I   |               of brass. Every kind of scintillation flashed from the gem-incrusted
3011 XIII|              of the Hundred came with scissors to lay hands upon them.~
3012 XI  |                Ah! forgive me! I am a scoundrel, and viler than scorpions,
3013 VI  |           dispatched Zarxas to Matho, scoured the woods, rallied his men (
3014 VII |       shoulders as if they were being scourged with thongs. “You do not
3015 VII |              amid the miry puddles. A scrap of cloth hung here and there
3016 II  |             the rest shall be sent to scrape the earth in the mines in
3017 XIV |             of about forty; then they scraped the skins, boiled the entrails,
3018 II  |              hyacinth robes, sponges, scrapers, brushes, perfumes, and
3019 V   |          branches were hidden beneath scraps of material and necklaces
3020 II  |              in his hand wherewith to scratch his skin.~At last two heralds
3021 VII |               be left but the eagles’ scream and a heap of ruins. Carthage,
3022 II  |               these words, which were screamed in Balearic, some Balearians
3023 I   |          porphyry vases. They uttered screams which afforded mirth to
3024 VII |          catacombs. The peacocks were screeching. Hamilcar walked along step
3025 XIII|            once raised the hood which screened his face.~“Here he is, Master!
3026 IX  |            frontals of the buildings, screening their eyes with their open
3027 XI  |        wrapped in lotus leaves from a scrip hanging against his breast,
3028 VI  |               for them.”~Afterwards a scruple troubled him. He was afraid
3029 X   |            slaves, and women had been scrupulously sent away; no one might
3030 VII |              tattooings on his arm he scrutinised a horizontal line with two
3031 VII |            ascended the rivers of the Scythians, had made their way into
3032 I   |          laboured about thee, and the sea-plains, ploughed by thine oars,
3033 VII |           were whitened somewhat with sea-sand which the wind had no doubt
3034 XIV |             led all his men along the sea-shore on the outer side of the
3035 XIV |            same which had stamped the seal of Carthage upon the sword-belt.
3036 VI  |           lake he would draw back his sealskin cloak, unfasten the cord
3037 VII |              out through the worn-out seams. Delicate filaments drawn
3038 VII |              valued on account of the secrets which they possessed.~To
3039 VII |              his thumb, and an entire section of the wall turned about
3040 VII |        fifteen hundred shekels on the security of thirty slaves. But twelve
3041 VIII|             rejected those engaged in sedentary occupations, and then those
3042 XII |               not so much in order to seduce them as out of an impulse
3043 XIV |          skilful manoeuvres. Hamilcar seduced the heads of the villages
3044 I   |               lake, I used to through seeds of the watermelon into your
3045     | seems
3046 XI  |              of your garment suddenly seizes me and entwines me like
3047 XIV |            and he knew of no means of selecting the good ones, they were
3048 XIII|                king of the two zones, self-generating Creator, Father and Mother,
3049 VI  |              like Carthage, they were self-governing, and always had clauses
3050 XIV |           then behind the mountain of Selloum, and as far as the first
3051 V   |         leathern straps; while above, semi-circles like shells, opened in the
3052 V   |             was a big black stone, of semispherical shape like a tabourine;
3053 VII |         sleeve; the black colour, the senile trembling, the bent figure
3054 III |            icy and deep. It contained senseless monsters, incoherent portions
3055 XI  |            contact, though scarcely a sensible one, shook Matho to the
3056 IV  |               had just discovered his sentence of death among the figures.~
3057 VII |              those, however, who were sentenced to be flogged standing upright
3058 XI  |            intermittent shouts of the sentinels as they answered one another.~
3059 XIV |          escaped them. They ceased to separate then. Their army amounted
3060 VI  |     accommodate the various societies separately. The rich crowded there
3061 IX  |              climb the mountain which separates the two valleys. They were
3062 XIV |         half-opened tombs, for living sepulchres.~In the centre of the tent,
3063 II  |          still covered with azure and serenity; then a warm wind would
3064 X   |               cloth of the country of Seres, white and streaked with
3065 XIV |         immediately picked it up; his servile habits came back to him
3066 II  |                He swallowed galbanum, seseli, and viper’s venom which
3067 XI  |         ground.~The slave immediately settled her again on the cushions.
3068 XIII|               a long hook, opened the seven-storied compartments on the body
3069 XIII|          heard at the gate of Khamon.~Seventy-five soldiers were pulling at
3070 XV  |               like one shivering with severe cold. He threaded the street
3071 VII |           others showed in theirs the severity of the desert, and strange
3072 XIII|           Roman sword. His curly hair shaded his swelling forehead. His
3073 V   |               into the kingdom of the shades!—Forgive me! it was as though
3074 II  |               hair, howling, weeping, shaken, bruised, and calling down
3075 VI  |               perfuming pans, and the shampooers, who were quite naked and
3076 XIV |             was left on the cross but shapeless remains, like the fragments
3077 XIV |                him whom they loved, a sharer in the deliverance of Carthage.~
3078 VI  |              the blue sky, like great sharks sporting in the sea.~But
3079 XIII|             weight of its beam, fell, shattering the lower stories beneath
3080 I   |               sweet wine, haunches of she-camels and buffaloes, hedgehogs
3081 VII |             cry like the howling of a she-wolf, and so frenzied and strident
3082 IX  |             ground before them bronze she-wolves which seemed to be running
3083 XI  |           other places the barley was shedding its reddened ears. The villages
3084 VI  |          Spendius, who, seated on the sheep-skins, was listening, and giving
3085 VII |              of linen or papyrus, and sheeps’ shoulder-blades inscribed
3086 III |            the stars, thou art like a shepherd keeping his flock. Shining
3087 XI  |           wood of rose-bays her horse shied violently at the corpse
3088 II  |            threw himself behind them, shielding himself with their bodies. “
3089 III |       catacombs the great salt lagoon shimmered like a piece of silver.
3090 X   |           there are days in the year, shine in its splendour; at times
3091 IV  |               built of stone, planks, shingle, reeds, shells, and beaten
3092 II  |              women; then, ruined by a shipwreck, he had made war against
3093 XIV |               the noise of the sea to shipwrecked men dying on the masts of
3094 XIII|             would strike together and shiver into a thousand pieces,
3095 XV  |         breast was panting with great shocks; and he made such efforts
3096 I   |           heads; they all wore wooden shoes, and yet made a noise as
3097 XV  |           beneath the pent-house of a shop, and advanced no further.~
3098 XIV |          Naffurs, who were mounted on short-haired camels, covered with ostrich
3099 XIV |            them with delight; and its shortened trunk, which was broad at
3100 VIII|            across the mountain by the shortest road, and as the Barbarians
3101 XIV |             down!”~Matho had lost his shoulder-pieces, his helmet, his cuirass;
3102 IV  |             in such numbers that they shouldered one another. The three long,
3103 XIII|              pieces, making a copious shower upon the combatants.~Soon
3104 VI  |               lead were already being showered down upon them from the
3105 X   |             having done so. A mystery shrank within the splendour of
3106 XIII|              with tattooings, and the shriekers in patched cloaks, were
3107 XII |       provoked tears, the sobs became shriller, the recognitions and embracings
3108 VII |         cloud-wreaths from the styrax shrivelling on a brazen tripod in the
3109 IX  |              like mummies in tattered shrouds. A few trembled and sobbed
3110 XIV |               meadow thinly sown with shrubs; the Barbarians devoured
3111 V   |             clenched hands she leaned shuddering out. He resumed:~“I have
3112 XIV |          plain confusedly. The strong shunned one another, and the timid
3113 VII |              to strike on the folding shutters of black lattice-work. Arborescences,
3114 VII |             shell, while the weavers’ shuttles rattled and the armourers’
3115 IX  |                were another calamity. Sickening smells rose from the borders
3116 XII |           crowd; he was brandishing a sickle; all understood his thought;
3117 XIII|               chariots furnished with sickles hastened up, and galloped
3118 II  |            gave them amulets to avert sickness; but they had spit upon
3119 XII |              the Greek republics, the side-view of a citadel or the name
3120 XI  |               impassibility he looked sideways at Narr’ Havas without turning
3121 I   |              Melkarth, the god of the Sidonians, and the father of her family.~
3122 XII |               when they perceived the siege-engines sent by the Tyrian towns
3123 III |             their having any distinct signification for her. In order to penetrate
3124 I   |           plump little dogs with pink silky hair and fattened on olive
3125 VII |            leg with an iron bar.~This silly atrocity made the Suffet
3126 X   |            descended her blue flowing silver-starred trousers. Next Taanach put
3127 X   |           Salammbo would approach its silver-wire basket from time to time,
3128 XIV |        undulations of these hillocks, silvery sheaves shone at intervals
3129 VII |             hair was crisped so as to simulate a cloud. Round her neck
3130 XIII|          machines repaired once more.~Sinews taken from bulls’ necks,
3131 X   |            love, in gratitude for the singular voluptuousness which she
3132 VII |           foot of a steep defile in a sinister spot. From below nothing
3133 III |            symbols, by the resounding sistra,—by the furrows of the earth,—
3134 IV  |            with one another as to the sites of the temples. Khamon’s,
3135 I   |             were those of the months—“Siv! Sivan! Tammouz, Eloul,
3136 I   |             those of the months—“Siv! Sivan! Tammouz, Eloul, Tischri,
3137 VIII|     syntagmata or full squares having sixteen men on each side. All the
3138 XIII|              its base was caught in a skein of twisted thread, and when
3139 VI  |            always abundant, the studs skilfully managed, and the plantations
3140 XIII|              The soldiers admired his skill and executed his commands.
3141 VII |            west something like a bird skimming the surface of the sea with
3142 XIV |        willingly have exchanged these skirmishes for a great battle, provided
3143 VII |          crossed a field planted with slabs of stone, which were painted
3144 XI  |             the elephants, which were slackening their speed; and all the
3145 IX  |             faction supported him but slackly.~Then Hamilcar, despairing
3146 IX  |               and the blood of camels slain for sacrifice ran along
3147 XV  |             along, felt, pricked, and slashed by all those fingers; when
3148 XV  |           through two crescent-shaped slashings; the nipples were hidden
3149 VI  |         seeing numbers of nations and slaughters, many ultimately ceased
3150 VII |         Giddenem, the governor of the slaved, and that personage appeared,
3151 XIII|               too much exhausted. The sleepers looked like corpses.~Then
3152 I   |             and issued naked from her sleeveless tunic, which was starred
3153 XIII|            tortoises. The projectiles slid over these oblique masses.~
3154 III |               Tunis, what looked like slight mists trailing along the
3155 VI  |         People repented that they had slighted him, and the peace party
3156 XII |             gasping. The foot trod on slimy things, and there were swamps
3157 VIII|             Then javelins, darts, and sling-bullets burst forth simultaneously.
3158 VI  |             throw of them.~A Balearic slinger took a step forward, put
3159 XII |               them the roofs of their sloop-shaped huts together with their
3160 XIV |              hands blood fell in big, slow drops, as ripe fruit falls
3161 VII |          enumerated. Abdalonim became slower. Suddenly he let the wooden
3162 II  |                and advancing with the slowness of a phantom, a human being,
3163 IX  |              to conquer, but with the smallest possible risk. According
3164 XIV |                then rose again with a smart stroke carrying off a limb
3165 I   |            about them at random, they smashed, they slew; some hurled
3166 IX  |           another calamity. Sickening smells rose from the borders of
3167 XII |              their faces purpled, and smitten with shame they shrieked:~“
3168 XI  |              re-entered his tent. The smoky lamp gave but little light,
3169 IX  |              in its perpetual purity, smoother and colder to the eye than
3170 V   |              in spite of the polished smoothness of the ground, it seemed
3171 VII |            the hills of Latium.”~They smote their right thighs to mark
3172 VII |               your master! Let him be smothered in the dunghill. And those
3173 XIII|            the clarions, the salsalim snapped like grasshoppers’ wings.~
3174 I   |         Simultaneously were heard the snapping of jaws, the noise of speech,
3175 VI  |        construct in the sea. He would snatch up the stones with his hands,
3176 VIII|            with their trunks, or else snatching them up from the ground
3177 VII |             in the distance. All were sneering in his face. In proportion
3178 XIV |       surrender; then, with frightful sneers, they would kill themselves
3179 XI  |          horse moved round and round, sniffing.~When Matho arrived the
3180 I   |              dishes. Drunken soldiers snored open-mouthed by the side
3181 XIII|            convenient for battle. The snout fitted upon his head, bordering
3182 VI  |       pastures on autumn mornings, of snowflakes, or of the bellowing of
3183 XIV |         springtime to see whether the snows are melted.~Spendius, surrounded
3184 VII |                His face, which was as snub-nosed as a mastiff’s, was surmounted
3185 VI  |             up his long red hair, and soak the latter in the water.
3186 IX  |           shrouds. A few trembled and sobbed with a stupid look; the
3187 XV  |             Boudes, and the street of Soepo, crossed the Green Market,
3188 VIII|               ground gradually became softer, and the feet sank in it.
3189 XI  |         esparto-grass; a felt rug lay soiled with crumbs of black bread;
3190 XIII|     corresponded with the days of the solar year; but others were brought,
3191 XI  |    country-seats, the massacre of the soldiery; it was you who had ruined
3192 X   |              her little sandals whose soles clacked upon her heels at
3193 II  |         nodding his head the while to solicit some approval.~He spoke
3194 V   |      understanding the meaning of his solicitation a horror seized upon her.
3195 VII |             had planted at the winter solstice and pruned at the waning
3196     | someone
3197     | somewhere
3198 XIV |       veterans of battles; and in the somnolence that benumbed them their
3199 III |             bees, and with increasing sonorousness floated away into the night
3200 IV  |              show of confidence would soothe them.~Traders, scribes,
3201 III |          flowers close, the waves are soothed, wearied man stretches his
3202 II  |         evening.~He consulted all the soothsayers in the army one after the
3203 IX  |             dust, and there was not a sorry rascal to be found who could
3204 XIII|            were hidden snares. At the south-west gate Autaritus and his men
3205 VII |            Eziongaber by doubling the Southern Horn and the promontory
3206 IX  |              an attack, he had struck southwards along the right bank of
3207 X   |               them in handfuls like a sower in a field. But on a sudden
3208 XI  |        although it was the season for sowing and ploughing, the fields
3209 XIV |             stretched a meadow thinly sown with shrubs; the Barbarians
3210 IV  |          shore to the catacombs; then spacious dwellings occurred at intervals
3211 I   |             began to bubble, luminous spangles glided past, and great fish
3212 XII |              of Antiochus displayed a sparrow-hawk; those who had served in
3213 X   |         already refused the four live sparrows which were offered to it
3214 IV  |                whom they sent back to Sparta in a rotten galley!”~“How
3215 XV  |         convulsed, as it were, in the spasm of Titanic joy and boundless
3216 XII |        snatched off their amulets and spat upon them. The dying rolled
3217 XI  |               her skin, was something special and belonging to her alone.
3218 II  |        Republic used to economise its specie; and as the Barbarians appeared
3219 I   |              In the distance a golden speck was turning in the dust
3220 III |          spread himself in the starry sphere; Khamon beamed in the sun;
3221 V   |             heels and immediately the spheres began to revolve and the
3222 II  |              more motionless than the Sphynx, rested on their elbows
3223 XIV |           replacing them.~Narr’ Havas spied them from afar in the mountains.
3224 I   |      granaries might be seen sacks of spilled wheat, below the gate was
3225 XV  |           girl, hiding the point of a spindle in her sleeve, split his
3226 X   |           last came to feel a kind of spiral within her heart, another
3227 I   |             hand at arm’s length, and spitting out fire through his nostrils.
3228 XIII|               flesh; a rain of sparks splashed against their faces, and
3229 XI  |             departing; drops of water splashing rarely, one by one, made
3230 V   |          gazed at her, dazzled by the splendours of her head, and, holding
3231 VIII|         quivering, they shook off the splinters of the arrows that clung
3232 XIII|               only one who would have spoken to him without fear.~Her
3233 VII |           halls branched off like the spokes from the nave of a wheel.
3234 XIV |              him to cross precipices, sponged the sweat of fevers from
3235 XIV |             in recognising Hanno. His spongy bones had given way under
3236 VIII|            restrained them with their spoon-headed harpoons, while the men
3237 XV  |              amphoras, tortoise-shell spoons, and small round loaves
3238 VI  |           blue sky, like great sharks sporting in the sea.~But just now
3239 XIV |         coming forth from its cave in springtime to see whether the snows
3240 IV  |             ground in the streets was sprinkled with fresh water; through
3241 VII |             both its feet beneath the spur which terminated the prow,
3242 V   |              roamed peacefully about, spurning the fallen fir-cones with
3243 VIII|               upon his dromedary, and spurring it on the shoulders with
3244 VI  |             blinded by the blood that spurted into their faces. The confused
3245 XIII|            from the houses like blood spurting from an artery. Thus Moloch
3246 XIII|        serving them were divided into squads, and they were worked from
3247 VI  |              and by all that had been squandered and lost in the bargaining
3248 IV  |            might be seen, colossal or squat, with enormous bellies,
3249 XII |              a heel in the mouth or a stab with the point of a javelin.~
3250 XIV |             as soon as a man began to stagger, all exclaimed that he was
3251 VI  |              Havas. They repeated the stain upon the canvas of their
3252 I   |            hairy breast. His face was stained with splashes of blood;
3253 IX  |              ran along the flights of stairs forming red cascades upon
3254 XIII|            the Republic itself was at stake. But as every profit must
3255 II  |            his hair, had collected in stalactites at the end of his tail,
3256 XI  |               tiers upon the mountain stamp and shriek around Salammbo.~
3257 VII |             and taking a nail-studded staple from a golden shell, which
3258 I   |            formed long parabolas like star-rockets on the azure-coloured earth.
3259 XIV |            posts; thus the Barbarians stared when they perceived Numidians
3260 III |        Eschmoun spread himself in the starry sphere; Khamon beamed in
3261 V   |           tigers. Their eyeballs were starting out of their heads like
3262 IV  |             by the gods, all who were starving or in despair strove to
3263 II  |            Spendius repeated the same statements to the Gauls, Greeks, Campanians
3264 II  |              temples, which served as stations for the pilgrims who repaired
3265 VII |          breast a little three-headed statuette, as blue as sapphire, and
3266 XII |            fell upon his beard.~“What stays you?” cried Spendius. “Make
3267 I   |               baths on account of the steam which floated around them,
3268 IV  |             which were rendered still steeper by the perspective.~They
3269 VII |         smiling, “how it was that you steered your galleys into the Roman
3270 V   |             at the entrance between a stela of gold and one of emerald,
3271 XIII|         clasped brows contracted with stern despair.~At last the Baal
3272 VII |      understanding as clear as in the sternest of his battles, he recalled
3273 XIII|           wounds remained motionless, stiffer than stakes, their mouths
3274 V   |            Mastiman, god of the dead, stifle you! and may the Other—he
3275 III |            mounts within my bosom, it stifles me, I am at the point of
3276 XIV |             them and killed them with stiletos in the back.~Hamilcar had
3277 XIV |              made him this present to stimulate his courage. Then his distress
3278 XIII|              pulled out the nails and stitched them end to end to make
3279 XIV |           that prolonged it.~The most stoical kept close to one another,
3280 IV  |          behalf they were immediately stoned, or their heads were cut
3281 XIV |           Master, this way! that way! stoop down!”~Matho had lost his
3282 VII |             large covers employed for stopping up the trenches in which
3283 VI  |             milk, myrrh, galbanum and storax upon his joints. He was
3284 I   |                wine-presses, cellars, storehouses, bakeries, and arsenals,
3285 I   |              shops at the cross ways, storks took to flight, white sails
3286 VII |               of the mole to stay the storms; and in the merchant harbour,
3287 VI  |       Spendius appeared below. Twenty stout lances might easily have
3288 XIV |            while they were engaged in straightening them under their heels,
3289 XIII|            extremity of his foot, and strain his ears like a musician
3290 XIII|              to procure stones on the strand, and gathered earth with
3291 XIII|         Giddenem; he felt inclined to strangle him.~“Begone!” he cried;
3292 VI  |             waiting for anything they strangled the comptrollers of the
3293 X   |             her throat by degrees and strangling her.~She was in despair
3294 XII |              to the marrow, blue from strangulation, or broadly cleft by the
3295 VI  |              and strove to recall the stratagems which he had heard described
3296 VII |       religious discipline, expert in strategy, pitiless and rich. They
3297 VII |              What have you paid?”~“To Stratonicles of Corinth, and to three
3298 VI  |             behold the fires in long, straw-roofed cottages flickering on the
3299 IX  |              their right to waifs and strays, claimed the youngest in
3300 X   |           country of Seres, white and streaked with green lines. On the
3301 XII |        smeared all over with tar-like streaks, knocked down the women,
3302 XIII|         crammed with sand in order to strengthen it and increase its thickness.~
3303 VII |      repeating the same syllables and strengthening the sounds—rose, grew loud,
3304 III |              are soothed, wearied man stretches his breast toward thee,
3305 XV  |            through tubes at him; they strewed pieces of broken glass beneath
3306 VI  |            would suddenly steal away, stride in the starlight over the
3307 III |             play softly on the silver string, for my heart is sad!”~The
3308 I   |              Megara were beginning to stripe the verdure of the gardens
3309 III |            petticoat of many-coloured stripes fitted closely on her hips,
3310 X   |              four tripods filled with strobus and cadamomum in the corners
3311 VIII|               irritating manner as he stroked the ostrich feather which
3312 XII |             their general, seized the strongholds, and everywhere slaughtered
3313 XIV |               houses. It was the last struggle; he hoped for nothing, and
3314 XIV |           killed one another in their struggles, or were drowned beneath
3315 XIII|            path before it; its wheels stuck in the mire; the head of
3316 X   |               he. In his youth he had studied at the College of the Mogbeds,
3317 VI  |             were always abundant, the studs skilfully managed, and the
3318 XIII|            covered with raw hides and stuffed with wrack; the catapults
3319 VII |              hideous extremity of its stump.~At this caress from the
3320 XII |              blood on the still tepid stumps; and soon they began to
3321 V   |               with violence enough to stun him, and he felt a numbness
3322 VIII|        elephants feeling their croups stung by the arrows began to gallop
3323 VII |          broken, wrinkled, trembling, stupid-looking, wrapped to the heels in
3324 XIV |               The Italiotes, who were sturdier than the rest, were still
3325 XI  |               midst of filth. But the sturdiest of them raised themselves
3326 IV  |              others made holes with a style on a sheet of lead.~A man
3327 II  |              his forehead with golden stylets; he loaded himself with
3328 VII |            the cloud-wreaths from the styrax shrivelling on a brazen
3329 VII |          below in the hall: Istatten, Subeldia, Hictamon, Yeoubas and others.
3330 II  |             garden. Their bodies were subjected to infamous mutilations;
3331 XIV |               inhabitants of Utica as subjects.~Hiero, who was ruling at
3332 III |               her, to divert her from sublimer prospects; but the maiden’
3333 X   |           humble, you understand, and submissive to his desire, which is
3334 VI  |              Finally the tumult would subside, and the soldiers would
3335 XIII|              had to be of the hardest substance, and their gearing all of
3336 VI  |               her soul hovered in it, subtler than a breath; and he would
3337 VII |            turn the mill-stone in the Suburra, and gather grapes on the
3338 XIV |            was not jealous of Hanno’s successes. Nevertheless he was in
3339 V   |        Spendius continued:~“We should succumb; the army would be annihilated
3340 XIV |              felt such anxiety; if he succumbed it would mean the annihilation
3341 XIV |             waists with ropes. Others sucked a pebble. They drank urine
3342 II  |           soldiers; many of them were suckling children suspended on their
3343 VIII|               No means of flight! The suddenness of the event, his terror
3344 XIV |                master!”~“No! ten will suffice,” replied Hamilcar quietly.~
3345 VI  |       necessary to cultivate whatever suited the Republic, and to furnish
3346 XII |              paid no attention to his summonings nor yet to those of the
3347 XIII|         turned back amid the ruins to summons his companions.~He perceived
3348 VI  |            said he, “that strength of sun-born serpents may penetrate into
3349 III |               the exhalation from the sun-heated walls. The motionless waves
3350 XIV |               there, as in the woods, sun-rays, descending obliquely, marked
3351 II  |          their faces blackened by the sunburn of battles. Hoarse cries
3352 III |              and folded his arms.~His sunken eyes shone like the lamps
3353 XIV |               naked bodies lay in the sunshine on the sand.~Then the Garamantians
3354 VII |            very heavy. Only people of superior understanding honoured these
3355 IV  |             galleys; and five rows of superposed arches, of a dumpy kind
3356 II  |               Romans.~One evening, at supper-time, dull cracked sounds were
3357 XIV |            and contracted in turn, as supple as a serpent, and as impregnable
3358 XIII|            was raised, a mournful and supplicant voice. It murmured: “Master!
3359 V   |             prostrate before the door supplicating Tanith. He besought her
3360 XIII|                who were appeased with supplications and allowed themselves to
3361 VI  |               engines of war had been supplied with the last screws. He
3362 VII |             been vanquished! Each one supports his own misfortune! Be resigned!”~“
3363 X   |                 replied Schahabarim.~“Suppose you were to accompany me,
3364 V   |              to die. This time he was surely lost, and the multitude
3365 XIV |           backbone, those coming next surged over them, and all fell
3366 VIII|             the cohorts, which flowed surging back. They stifled the men
3367 VI  |             so slowly that instead of surprising the Barbarians in the morning,
3368 XI  |          yielding her body to him she surrenders with the glory of your name
3369 I   |          nothing with the cowards who surround him. Command them! Carthage
3370 VII |          among you! Gisco, rise!” And surveying the step of the altar with
3371 VII |               is a curse! I shall not survive it!” He went on again in
3372 XIV |             of conquering, or even of surviving; but they were the best,
3373 XIII|            were long talked of by the survivors.~Meanwhile arrows darted
3374 IX  |               they did not themselves suspect how much their inaction
3375 VII |            his keen gaze: “No one yet suspects?”~The old man swore to him
3376 XI  |          being seized with a terrible suspicion. But soon recovering his
3377 XIV |             their hands, and the most suspicious remained standing with their
3378 IX  |                Moreover, the porters, sutlers, and slaves were beginning
3379 XIII|          looked like great infants in swaddling clothes with their heels
3380 XIV |           Victory! the Thunderer! the Swallow!” On the first day, too,
3381 IV  |             himself into the gulf and swam for three hours at a stretch.
3382 XIII|          broke open the doors. A miry swamp stretched at the bottom.~
3383 XII |          slimy things, and there were swamps of mud although no rain
3384 XIV |           frighten him no more than a swarm of swallows. Extraordinary
3385 IV  |               slaves, and disappeared swearing he would be revenged.~The
3386 VIII|               held in his spotted and sweat-covered horse with silver reins.
3387 VI  |             were quite naked and were sweating like sponges, crushed a
3388 II  |              kept them at Drepanum to sweep out our stables. I have
3389 II  |            emitted something that was sweeter than wine and more terrible
3390 XII |             were puffed up with livid swellings, while the more nervous
3391 VIII|                Confess it! my herd of swine did more for us than a phalanx
3392 XIV |          increased; they gnawed their sword-belts, and the little sponges
3393 XIV |              their cuirasses that the sword-points might be thrust in the more
3394 V   |              though he had received a sword-thrust. She repeated several times: “
3395 VI  |            overturn, strike, and deal sword-thrusts everywhere. The Barbarians
3396 XIV |              Barbarians, and you have sworn for them?”~“Yes!” they replied.~“
3397 IX  |           Malqua and set up stages of sycamore-wood at the corners of the cross-ways,
3398 XV  |       continuity. Frequently a single syllable—a hoarse, deep, and frantic
3399 XV  |             forcemeat; the pastry had symbolic shapes; when the covers
3400 XV  |             with painted eyelids, who symbolised the hermaphrodism of the
3401 V   |             in the wall, and in their symmetrical arrangement they looked
3402 XII |            with steel and were posted symmetrically upon both sides of the aqueduct.~
3403 IV  |             to light their fires; the Syracusan women had golden plates
3404 V   |        returned the former slave, “in Syria, in the town of Maphug”;
3405 VII |         Athenian drachmas, and twelve Syrian talents of gold. The food
3406 XIII|            Chaldaea, the Kijun of the Syrians; Derceto, with her virgin’
3407 VII |            those who go by way of the Syrtes and the temple of Ammon
3408 II  |              been born in the gulf of Syrtis. His father had taken him
3409 VI  |              loose upon them. By this system the crops were always abundant,
3410 XIII|               might be reduced to two systems: some acted like slings,
3411 IV  |               to lie, the coward! Don’t trust him.”~For some time
3412 XIII|               desolation.~Before each tabernacle a man balanced a large vase
3413 XII |             army, but nomads from the tableland of Barca, bandits from Cape
3414 V   |            semispherical shape like a tabourine; flames were burning upon
3415 II  |           astonishment; then, as by a tacit agreement, and believing
3416 IX  |              direction he encountered taciturn hesitation and hatred; and
3417 XIII|           three days Iddibal had been tacking about in the gulf and watching
3418 XIII|           were stretched with levers, tackle-blocks, capstans or tympanums;
3419 XIII|              were lowered by means of tackling. They formed numerous straight
3420 XII |              the cedar forests beyond Taggir. They had cat-skin quivers
3421 VII |     productions were sold. There were tailors embroidering cloaks, others
3422 VII |          raised:~“No doubt, since she takes her lovers from among the
3423 XIV |            fugitives arrived with the tale of the rout, and the Punic
3424 XIV |        barbers’ shops where there are tales to be heard. Others could
3425 II  |            appear amid the verdure of tamarisks to lose itself at the turning
3426 II  |        boar-spears and nets; he could tame wild beasts and could cook
3427 I   |          midst of saffron in bowls of Tamrapanni wood. Everything was running
3428 VII |             old man whose skin seemed tanned by sand, wind, and sea.
3429 V   |             went by the street of the Tanners, the square of Muthumbal,
3430 VII |              and small, the oxen from Taormina, and the antelopes,—not
3431 VII |          stretched upon the wall, his tapering hands reached down to the
3432 VII |              flax from Egypt, Greece, Taprobane and Judaea; mandrepores
3433 XII |    Dromedaries, smeared all over with tar-like streaks, knocked down the
3434 X   |                and the candelabrum of Tarentum, which bore as many sconces
3435 III |           with prayers. She had never tasted wine, nor eaten meat, nor
3436 IV  |            sphinxes, and with parrots tattooed on their breasts. Friends
3437 XII |               siege. The Mercenaries, taught by their defeats, would
3438 IV  |           sold, and the trading towns taxed; the Mercenaries would grow
3439 VII |            the javelin and to drive a team.”~“He is strong, is he not?”~“
3440 IX  |               crossed the river above Tebourba as though to return to Carthage.
3441 VII |            the cisterns filled up! At Tedes they have carried off fifteen
3442 IX  |               at Eidous, Monchar, and Tehent successively; some scouts
3443 VIII|               eyes wide as if he were telling of some battle. The king
3444 XIV |             away by the warmth of his temper.~Hamilcar replied that he
3445 II  |             it on a vessel. But their tempers were provoked by want of
3446 XIV |             the walls, and the washed temple-roofs shone black in the gleam
3447 XIII|            gaze at her with an almost tender look, as if he found some
3448 I   |              kneeling beside Matho he tenderly took his arm, and felt it
3449 XV  |             be distinguished from the tendons of his wrists, which were
3450 XIII|                In order that the twin tensions might completely correspond,
3451 XIV |             had been constructed with tent-poles fastened end to end, and
3452 XI  |          rarely, one by one, made the tent-roof shake.~Matho slept like
3453 II  |              being embarrassed by the tent-ropes, the animals that were straying
3454 XII |           clots of blood on the still tepid stumps; and soon they began
3455 I   |         chariots of war, while Ionian terminations conflicted with consonants
3456 XIV |              a passage! As to implore terms from the conqueror, by what
3457 I   |           courses supporting its four terraced stories. With its large,
3458 XIV |         lances in towers on elephants terribly armed.~Besides the spears
3459 IX  |              the towns of Tignicabah, Tessourah, Vacca, and others further
3460 VII |             their relatives, and this testimony to their affliction prevented
3461 II  |       Carthage. He had been appointed tetrarch at the capture of Drepanum.
3462 XIV |               faces consumed with red tetters; this, they thought, had
3463 XI  |             and thus they reached the Teveste gate.~Its heavy leaves were
3464 VII |             peacocks, pepper, and new textures. As to those who go by way
3465 IX  |              butter and cinnamomum to thank them. These, with their
3466 IX  |         Djeraado fertile in junipers, Thapitis, and Hagour sent embassies
3467 XIV |      resounding streets, the taverns, theatres, baths, and the barbers’
3468 II  |    Mercenaries; their gluttony, their thefts, their impiety, their disdain,
3469 I   |            through the dimness of the theogonies, like phantoms wrapped in
3470 X   |            would set forth to her the theory of the souls that descend
3471     | thereby
3472     | Thereupon
3473 XIII|             low tones were chanting a thesmophorion in the Megarian dialect.~
3474 X   |        Samothrace, Pessinus, Ephesus, Thessaly, Judaea, and the temples
3475 VII |              These men were generally thick-set, with curved noses like
3476 IV  |              the darkness round about thickened towards the walls and threw
3477 XIII|              was enough to be done in thickening the wall and making it as
3478 XIV |              there stretched a meadow thinly sown with shrubs; the Barbarians
3479 XV  |      stammering out gentle words; she thirsted to feel them and hear them
3480 I   |            without interruption, like thirsty dromedaries. A Lusitanian
3481 VIII|             cross.~The Suffet ordered thirty-two of the elephants to be posted
3482 VIII|              of rock, interlacings of thorn, and stone walls; on the
3483 IX  |              region comprised between Thouccaber and Utica, with the towns
3484 XV  |        shivering with severe cold. He threaded the street of Boudes, and
3485 VII |              from his breast a little three-headed statuette, as blue as sapphire,
3486 III |          asleep in the streets on the thresholds of the houses; the shadows
3487 XIII|         became audible, with a broken throat-rattling like the breathing of a
3488 I   |            prow of his ship. “At each throb of the waves it sank beneath
3489 XIV |          Invincible! the Victory! the Thunderer! the Swallow!” On the first
3490 XII |              driving a flock.~At this thundering voice the lines of men closed
3491 VII |             sent a fleet by Gades and Thymiamata to try to reach Eziongaber
3492 XV  |              after the fashion of the thyrsus; blocks of snow were melting
3493 VIII|             the third of the month of Tibby—they saw him descending
3494 XIII|              afterwards extraordinary tidings were spread abroad: the
3495 XIII|             It was felt that the last tie which bound their souls
3496 IX  |             looked like the eyes of a tiger cat gleaming in a bush by
3497 VII |         salutation, resumed:~“Lent to Tigillas until the end of the season
3498 IX  |              Utica, with the towns of Tignicabah, Tessourah, Vacca, and others
3499 IV  |               granite walls supported tile partitions; the whole mounting,
3500 IV  |              the Syssitia, had golden tiles; Melkarth, to the left of
3501 III |             escape through the bronze tiling, and the heavy breeze would
3502 XII |              Caunians, Macarians, and Tillabarians, each holding two javelins