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Salammbo

CHAPTER XIV
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He would arrive and then retire, and by constantly renewing this manoeuvre, he gradually detached them from their encampments.

Spendius was obliged to follow them, and in the end Matho yielded in like manner.
He did not pass beyond Tunis.

He shut himself up within its walls.

This persistence was full of wisdom, for soon Narr' Havas was to be seen issuing from the gate of Khamon with his elephants and soldiers.
Hamilcar was recalling him, but the other Barbarians were already wandering about in the provinces in pursuit of the Suffet.
The latter had received three thousand Gauls from Clypea.

He had horses brought to him from Cyrenaica, and armour from Brutium, and began the war again.
Never had his genius been so impetuous and fertile.


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