But on the morrow the tents of the Mercenaries were seen on the mountain of the Hot Springs.

Then so deep was the despair that many people, especially women, flung themselves headlong from the top of the Acropolis.
Hamilcar's designs were not known.

He lived alone in his tent with none near him but a young boy, and no one ever ate with them, not even excepting Narr' Havas.

Nevertheless he showed great deference to the latter after Hanno's defeat; but the king of the Numidians had too great an interest in becoming his son not to distrust him.
This inertness veiled skilful manoeuvres.

Hamilcar seduced the heads of the villages by all sorts of artifices; and the Mercenaries were hunted, repulsed, and enclosed like wild beasts.