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Salammbo-Part35_Gustave Flaubert(1821-1880)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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"Ah! we have reached it! We are there! I have them!"

He had so convinced and triumphant an air that Matho was surprised



from his torpor, and felt himself carried away by it. These words,

coming when his distress was at its height, drove his despair to



vengeance, and pointed to food for his wrath. He bounded upon one of

the camels that were among the baggage, snatched up its halter, and



with the long rope, struck the stragglers with all his might, running

right and left alternately, in the rear of the army, like a dog



driving a flock.

At this thundering voice the lines of men closed up; even the lame



hurried their steps; the intervening space lessened in the middle of

the isthmus. The foremost of the Barbarians were marching in the dust



raised by the Carthaginians. The two armies were coming close, and

were on the point of touching. But the Malqua gate, the Tagaste gate,



and the great gate of Khamon threw wide their leaves. The Punic square

divided; three columns were swallowed up, and eddied beneath the



porches. Soon the mass, being too tightly packed, could advance no

further; pikes clashed in the air, and the arrows of the Barbarians



were shivering against the walls.

Hamilcar was to be seen on the threshold of Khamon. He turned round



and shouted to his men to move aside. He dismounted from his horse;

and pricking it on the croup with the sword which he held, sent it



against the Barbarians.

It was a black stallion, which was fed on balls of meal, and would



bend its knees to allow its master to mount. Why was he sending it

away? Was this a sacrifice?



The noble horse galloped into the midst of the lances, knocked down

men, and, entangling its feet in its entrails, fell down, then rose



again with furious leaps; and while they were moving aside, trying to

stop it, or looking at it in surprise, the Carthaginians had united



again; they entered, and the enormous gate shut echoing behind them.

It would not yield. The Barbarians came crushing against it;--and for



some minutes there was an oscillation throughout the army, which

became weaker and weaker, and at last ceased.



The Carthaginians had placed soldiers on the aqueduct, they began to

hurl stones, balls, and beams. Spendius represented that it would be



best not to persist. The Barbarians went and posted themselves further

off, all being quite resolved to lay siege to Carthage.



The rumour of the war, however, had passed beyond the confines of the

Punic empire; and from the pillars of Hercules to beyond Cyrene



shepherds mused on it as they kept their flocks, and caravans talked

about it in the light of the stars. This great Carthage, mistress of



the seas, splendid as the sun, and terrible as a god, actually found

men who were daring enough to attack her! Her fall even had been



asserted several times; and all had believed it for all wished it: the

subject populations, the tributary villages, the allied provinces, the



independent hordes, those who execrated her for her tyranny or were

jealous of her power, or coveted her wealth. The bravest had very



speedily joined the Mercenaries. The defeat at the Macaras had checked

all the rest. At last they had recovered confidence, had gradually



advanced and approached; and now the men of the eastern regions were

lying on the sandhills of Clypea on the other side of the gulf. As



soon as they perceived the Barbarians they showed themselves.

They were not Libyans from the neighbourhood of Carthage, who had long



composed the third army, but nomads from the tableland of Barca,

bandits from Cape Phiscus and the promontory of Dernah, from Phazzana



and Marmarica. They had crossed the desert, drinking at the brackish

wells walled in with camels' bones; the Zuaeces, with their covering



of ostrich feathers, had come on quadrigae; the Garamantians, masked

with black veils, rode behind on their painted mares; others were



mounted on asses, onagers, zebras, and buffaloes; while some dragged

after them the roofs of their sloop-shaped huts together with their



families and idols. There were Ammonians with limbs wrinkled by the

hot water of the springs; Atarantians, who curse the sun; Troglodytes,



who bury their dead with laughter beneath branches of trees; and the

hideous Auseans, who eat grass-hoppers; the Achyrmachidae, who eat



lice; and the vermilion-painted Gysantians, who eat apes.

All were ranged along the edge of the sea in a great straight line.



Afterwards they advanced like tornadoes of sand raised by the wind. In

the centre of the isthmus the throng stopped, the Mercenaries who were






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