29/39 The pikes were too weak and broke, and the elephants passed through the phalanxes like wild boars through tufts of grass; they plucked up the stakes of the camp with their trunks, and traversed it from one end to the other, overthrowing the tents with their breasts. They were hiding themselves in the hills bordering the valley by which the Carthaginians had come. The three Judges of the town appeared in the opening of the battlements on the summit of a tower. |