They were the conquerors of Regulus; the people loved them; it was impossible to treat such old friends too well.

Hanno had the brass plates which adorned their breasts recast, their tusks gilt, their towers enlarged, and caparisons, edged with very heavy fringes, cut out of the handsomest purple.

Finally, as their drivers were called Indians (after the first ones, no doubt, who came from the Indies) he ordered them all to be costumed after the Indian fashion; that is to say, with white pads round their temples, and small drawers of byssus, which with their transverse folds looked like two valves of a shell applied to the hips.
The army under Autaritus still remained before Tunis.

It was hidden behind a wall made with mud from the lake, and protected on the top by thorny brushwood.

Some Negroes had planted tall sticks here and there bearing frightful faces,--human masks made with birds' feathers, and jackals' or serpents' heads,--which gaped towards the enemy for the purpose of terrifying him; and the Barbarians, reckoning themselves invincible through these means, danced, wrestled, and juggled, convinced that Carthage would perish before long.