The Carthaginian army replied to it with a great noise of trumpets, cymbals, flutes of asses' bones, and tympanums.

The Barbarians had already leaped outside the palisades, and were facing their enemies within a javelin's throw of them.
A Balearic slinger took a step forward, put one of his clay bullets into his thong, and swung round his arm.

An ivory shield was shivered, and the two armies mingled together.
The Greeks made the horses rear and fall back upon their masters by pricking their nostrils with the points of their lances.

The slaves who were to hurl stones had picked such as were too big, and they accordingly fell close to them.

The Punic foot-soldiers exposed the right side in cutting with their long swords.