He mentally summoned Salammbo to an interview; then he waited.

She did not come; this seemed to him like a fresh piece of treachery,--and henceforth he execrated her.

If he had seen her corpse he would perhaps have gone away.

He doubled the outposts, he planted forks at the foot of the rampart, he drove caltrops into the ground, and he commanded the Libyans to bring him a whole forest that he might set it on fire and burn Carthage like a den of foxes.
Spendius went on obstinately with the siege.

He sought to invent terrible machines such as had never before been constructed.
The other Barbarians, encamped at a distance on the isthmus, were amazed at these delays; they murmured, and they were let loose.
Then they rushed with their cutlasses and javelins, and beat against the gates with them.