His cavalry also he placed in the wings, the Carthaginian occupying the right, the Numidian the left.

Various were the means of exhortation employed in an army consisting of a mixture of so many different kinds of men; men differing in language, customs laws, arms, dress, and appearance, and in the motives for serving.
To the auxiliaries, the prospect both of their present pay, and many times more from the spoils, was held out.

The Gauls were stimulated by their peculiar and inherent animosity against the Romans.

To the Ligurians the hope was held out of enjoying the fertile plains of Italy, and quitting their rugged mountains, if victorious.

The Moors and Numidians were terrified with subjection to the government of Masinissa, which he would exercise with despotic severity.