He was apparently taking to flight; and running northward before the wind he disappeared into the mist.
But three days afterwards, when the attack was about to begin again, some people arrived tumultuously from the Libyan coast.

Barca had come among them.

He had carried off provisions everywhere, and he was spreading through the country.
Then the Barbarians were indignant as though he were betraying them.
Those who were most weary of the siege, and especially the Gauls, did not hesitate to leave the walls in order to try and rejoin him.

Spendius wanted to reconstruct the helepolis; Matho had traced an imaginary line from his tent to Megara, and inwardly swore to follow it, and none of their men stirred.

But the rest, under the command of Autaritus, went off, abandoning the western part of the rampart, and so profound was the carelessness exhibited that no one even thought of replacing them.
Narr' Havas spied them from afar in the mountains.