Let us set off after the others." But the stand which the lion had made had been sufficiently long to enable the rest of the troop to escape.

Leaving two or three of their comrades to remove the body of the soldier, the horsemen scattered in various directions; but although they rode far over the plain, they could see no signs of the troop they had pursued.
After a time they gave up the pursuit and rode back towards the camp.
When they reached it they found that another troop of lions, eight in number, had approached the other grove, where two had been killed by the party commanded by Adherbal and Giscon, and the rest of the cavalry were still in pursuit of the others.

They presently returned, bringing in four more skins; so that eight lions in all had fallen in the night's work.
"Well, Malchus, what do you think of lion hunting ?" Adherbal asked as they gathered again in the general's tent.
"They are terrible beasts," Malchus said.

"I had not thought that any beast could make so tremendous a roar.

Of course I have heard those in captivity in Carthage, but it did not seem nearly so terrible as it sounded here in the stillness of the desert." "I own that it made my blood run cold," Adherbal said; "and their charge is tremendous--they broke through the hedge of spears as if they had been reeds.