Then Spendius had some pigs carried off from the farms, smeared them with bitumen, set them on fire, and drove them towards Utica.
The elephants were terrified by the flames and fled.

The ground sloped upwards, javelins were thrown at them, and they turned back;--and with great blows of ivory and trampling feet they ripped up the Carthaginians, stifled them, flattened them.

The Barbarians descended the hill behind them; the Punic camp, which was without entrenchments was sacked at the first rush, and the Carthaginians were crushed against the gates, which were not opened through fear of the Mercenaries.
Day broke, and Matho's foot-soldiers were seen coming up from the west.
At the same time horsemen appeared; they were Narr' Havas with his Numidians.

Leaping ravines and bushes they ran down the fugitives like greyhounds pursuing hares.

This change of fortune interrupted the Suffet.