Those who were marching stopped; the dying leaned on their elbows and turned round to bless her.

All the Barbarians knew now that she had recovered the zaimph; they saw her or believed that they saw her from a distance; and other cries, but those of rage and vengeance, resounded in spite of the plaudits of the Carthaginians.

Thus did the five armies in tiers upon the mountain stamp and shriek around Salammbo.
Hamilcar, who was unable to speak, nodded her his thanks.

His eyes were directed alternately upon the zaimph and upon her, and he noticed that her chainlet was broken.

Then he shivered, being seized with a terrible suspicion.