Hamilcar had desired the taking of prisoners, but the Carthaginians obeyed him grudgingly, so much pleasure did they derive from plunging their swords into the bodies of the Barbarians.

As they were too hot they set about their work with bare arms like mowers; and when they desisted to take breath they would follow with their eyes a horseman galloping across the country after a fleeing soldier.

He would succeed in seizing him by the hair, hold him thus for a while, and then fell him with a blow of his axe.
Night fell.

Carthaginians and Barbarians had disappeared.

The elephants which had taken to flight roamed in the horizon with their fired towers.
These burned here and there in the darkness like beacons nearly half lost in the mist; and no movement could be discerned in the plain save the undulation of the river, which was heaped with corpses, and was drifting them away to the sea.
Two hours afterwards Matho arrived.