This army came to him like a relief from the gods; dissembling his joy he replied: "May the Baals favour you! I do not know what the Republic will do for you, but Hamilcar is not ungrateful." The tumult increased; some captains entered.

He was arming himself as he spoke.
"Come, return! You will use your horsemen to beat down their infantry between your elephants and mine.

Courage! exterminate them!" And Narr' Havas was rushing away when Salammbo appeared.
She leaped down quickly from her horse.

She opened her ample cloak and spreading out her arms displayed the zaimph.
The leathern tent, which was raised at the corners, left visible the entire circuit of the mountain with its thronging soldiers, and as it was in the centre Salammbo could be seen on all sides.

An immense shouting burst forth, a long cry of triumph and hope.