THE BATTLE OF THE MACARAS In the following day he drew two hundred and twenty-three thousand kikars of gold from the Syssitia, and decreed a tax of fourteen shekels upon the rich.

Even the women contributed; payment was made in behalf of the children, and he compelled the colleges of priests to furnish money--a monstrous thing, according to Carthaginian customs.
He demanded all the horses, mules, and arms.

A few tried to conceal their wealth, and their property was sold; and, to intimidate the avarice of the rest, he himself gave sixty suits of armour, and fifteen hundred gomers of meal, which was as much as was given by the Ivory Company.
He sent into Liguria to buy soldiers, three thousand mountaineers accustomed to fight with bears; they were paid for six moons in advance at the rate of four minae a day.
Nevertheless an army was wanted.

But he did not, like Hanno, accept all the citizens.

First he rejected those engaged in sedentary occupations, and then those who were big-bellied or had a pusillanimous look; and he admitted those of ill-repute, the scum of Malqua, sons of Barbarians, freed men.