But sentries marched round them continually.

They were all fastened to a common chain.

Each one wore an iron carcanet, and the crowd was never weary of coming to gaze at them.
The women would show their little children the handsome robes hanging in tatters on their wasted limbs.
Whenever Autaritus looked at Gisco he was seized with rage at the recollection of the insult that he had received, and he would have killed him but for the oath which he had taken to Narr' Havas.

Then he would go back into his tent and drink a mixture of barley and cumin until he swooned away from intoxication,--to awake afterwards in broad daylight consumed with horrible thirst.
Matho, meanwhile, was besieging Hippo-Zarytus.

But the town was protected by a lake, communicating with the sea.