The Mercenaries were worn out with fatigue; it was better to wait till next day; and the Barbarians feeling sure of their victory occupied themselves the whole night in eating.
They lighted large bright fires, which, while dazzling themselves, left the Punic army below them in the shade.

Hamilcar caused a trench fifteen feet broad and ten cubits deep to be dug in Roman fashion round his camp, and the earth thrown out to be raised on the inside into a parapet, on which sharp interlacing stakes were planted; and at sunrise the Mercenaries were amazed to perceive all the Carthaginians thus entrenched as if in a fortress.
They could recognise Hamilcar in the midst of the tents walking about and giving orders.

His person was clad in a brown cuirass cut in little scales; he was followed by his horse, and stopped from time to time to point out something with his right arm outstretched.
Then more than one recalled similar mornings when, amid the din of clarions, he passed slowly before them, and his looks strengthened them like cups of wine.

A kind of emotion overcame them.

Those, on the contrary, who were not acquainted with Hamilcar, were mad with joy at having caught him.
Nevertheless if all attacked at once they would do one another mutual injury in the insufficiency of space.