They ran on the flank of the syntagmata by the side of the captains.

They called to their husbands, pulled them by the cloak, cursed them as they beat their breasts, and held out their little naked and weeping children at arm's length.

The sight of them was unmanning the Barbarians; they were an embarrassment and a peril.

Several times they were repulsed, but they came back again; Matho made the horsemen belonging to Narr' Havas charge them with the point of the lance; and on some Balearians shouting out to him that they must have women, he replied: "I have none!" Just now he was invaded by the genius of Moloch.

In spite of the rebellion of his conscience, he performed terrible deeds, imagining that he was thus obeying the voice of a god.