They drank urine cooled in their brazen helmets.
And they still expected the army from Tunis! The length of time which it took in coming was, according to their conjectures, an assurance of its early arrival.

Besides, Matho, who was a brave fellow, would not desert them.

"'Twill be to-morrow!" they would say to one another; and then to-morrow would pass.
At the beginning they had offered up prayers and vows, and practised all kinds of incantations.

Just now their only feeling to their divinities was one of hatred, and they strove to revenge themselves by believing in them no more.
Men of violent disposition perished first; the Africans held out better than the Gauls.

Zarxas lay stretched at full length among the Balearians, his hair over his arm, inert.