In his fingers, which were laden with rings, he held a necklace of jet beads, so as to recognise the men who were subject to the sacred disease.
Hamilcar signed to him to unfasten the muzzles.

Then with the cries of famished animals they all rushed upon the flour, burying their faces in the heaps of it and devouring it.
"You are weakening them!" said the Suffet.
Giddenem replied that such treatment was necessary in order to subdue them.
"It was scarcely worth while sending you to the slaves' school at Syracuse.

Fetch the others!" And the cooks, butlers, grooms, runners, and litter-carriers, the men belonging to the vapour-baths, and the women with their children, all ranged themselves in a single line in the garden from the mercantile house to the deer park.

They held their breath.

An immense silence prevailed in Megara.