But not caring to compromise themselves, they answered him with vague words, with compliments and excuses.
He went up again abruptly into the North, determined to open up one of the Tyrian towns, though he were obliged to lay siege to it.

He required a station on the coast, so as to be able to draw supplies and men from the islands or from Cyrene, and he coveted the harbour of Utica as being the nearest to Carthage.
The Suffet therefore left Zouitin and turned the lake of Hippo-Zarytus with circumspection.

But he was soon obliged to lengthen out his regiments into column in order to climb the mountain which separates the two valleys.

They were descending at sunset into its hollow, funnel-shaped summit, when they perceived on the level of the ground before them bronze she-wolves which seemed to be running across the grass.
Suddenly large plumes arose and a terrible song burst forth, accompanied by the rhythm of flutes.

It was the army under Spendius; for some Campanians and Greeks, in their execration of Carthage, had assumed the ensigns of Rome.