The aborigines appeared first, and were followed by the slaves from the country; caravans of Negroes were seized and armed, and merchants on their way to Carthage, despairing of any more certain profit, mingled with the Barbarians.

Numerous bands were continually arriving.

From the heights of the Acropolis the growing army might be seen.
But the guards of the Legion were posted as sentries on the platform of the aqueduct, and near them rose at intervals brazen vats, in which floods of asphalt were boiling.

Below in the plain the great crowd stirred tumultuously.

They were in a state of uncertainty, feeling the embarrassment with which Barbarians are always inspired when they meet with walls.
Utica and Hippo-Zarytus refused their alliance.