There were interested reconciliations, understandings, and promises.

Hamilcar would not take any further part in any government.
All conjured him.

They besought him; and as the word treason occurred in their speech, he fell into a passion.

The sole traitor was the Great Council, for as the enlistment of the soldiers expired with the war, they became free as soon as the war was finished; he even exalted their bravery and all the advantages which might be derived from interesting them in the Republic by donations and privileges.
Then Magdassin, a former provincial governor, said, as he rolled his yellow eyes: "Truly Barca, with your travelling you have become a Greek, or a Latin, or something! Why speak you of rewards for these men?
Rather let ten thousand Barbarians perish than a single one of us!" The Ancients nodded approval, murmuring:--"Yes, is there need for so much trouble?
They can always be had ?" "And they can be got rid of conveniently, can they not?
They are deserted as they were by you in Sardinia.

The enemy is apprised of the road which they are to take, as in the case of those Gauls in Sicily, or perhaps they are disembarked in the middle of the sea.