They increased, and suddenly the furious trumpeting of the elephants burst forth as if the battle were beginning again.

A great tumult was going on around the town.
The Carthaginians had not attempted to pursue the Barbarians.

They had taken up their quarters at the foot of the walls with their baggage, mules, serving men, and all their train of satraps; and they made merry in their beautiful pearl-bordered tents, while the camp of the Mercenaries was now nothing but a heap of ruins in the plain.

Spendius had recovered his courage.

He dispatched Zarxas to Matho, scoured the woods, rallied his men (the losses had been inconsiderable),--and they were re-forming their lines enraged at having been conquered without a fight, when they discovered a vat of petroleum which had no doubt been abandoned by the Carthaginians.