Every one was arranging his life beforehand; they would have concubines, slaves, lands; others intended to bury their treasure, or risk it on a vessel.

But their tempers were provoked by want of employment; there were constant disputes between horse-soldiers and foot-soldiers, Barbarians and Greeks, while there was a never-ending din of shrill female voices.
Every day men came flocking in nearly naked, and with grass on their heads to protect them from the sun; they were the debtors of the rich Carthaginians and had been forced to till the lands of the latter, but had escaped.

Libyans came pouring in with peasants ruined by the taxes, outlaws, and malefactors.

Then the horde of traders, all the dealers in wine and oil, who were furious at not being paid, laid the blame upon the Republic.

Spendius declaimed against it.