The Suffet dipped his hand into this hot mire and rubbed his knees with it: it was a cure.
When evening had come he stole away from the town with his escort, and made his way into the mountain to rejoin his army.
He succeeded in finding the remains of it.
Four days afterward he was on the top of a defile at Gorza, when the troops under Spendius appeared below.

Twenty stout lances might easily have checked them by attacking the head of their column, but the Carthaginians watched them pass by in a state of stupefaction.

Hanno recognised the king of the Numidians in the rearguard; Narr' Havas bowed to him, at the same time making a sign which he did not understand.
The return to Carthage took place amid all kinds of terrors.

They marched only at night, hiding in the olive woods during the day.
There were deaths at every halting-place; several times they believed themselves lost.

At last they reached Cape Hermaeum, where vessels came to receive them.
Hanno was so fatigued, so desperate--the loss of the elephants in particular overwhelmed him--that he demanded poison from Demonades in order to put an end to it all.