In every direction he encountered taciturn hesitation and hatred; and in spite of his entreaties to the Great Council no succour came from Carthage.
It was said, perhaps it was believed, that he had need of none.

It was a trick, or his complaints were unnecessary; and Hanno's partisans, in order to do him an ill turn, exaggerated the importance of his victory.
The troops which he commanded he was welcome to; but they were not going to supply his demands continually in that way.

The war was quite burdensome enough! it had cost too much, and from pride the patricians belonging to his faction supported him but slackly.
Then Hamilcar, despairing of the Republic, took by force from the tribes all that he wanted for the war--grain, oil, wood, cattle, and men.

But the inhabitants were not long in taking flight.

The villages passed through were empty, and the cabins were ransacked without anything being discerned in them.