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"Alcon the prudent is not with you?" he began. They glanced around in surprise. It was true; until then the absence of the man who was first in all public acts, had not been noticed. "You look for him in vain," continued the Celtiberian. "Alcon is in the camp of Hannibal.
I go ignorant of my destination, and perhaps I must march against what I most love." They said no more; they feared to give expression to their thoughts. Greek and Celtiberian embraced tenderly. Then, after a sorrowful farewell, they kissed each other on the eyes in sign of fraternal friendship. Sónnica feared that she had lost Actæon forever.
According to the Grecian custom an arbiter bibendi must be chosen, a guest of honor who should propose the toasts, announce the moment for drinking, and direct the conversation. "Let us choose Euphobias," said Alorcus, with the grave humor of a Celtiberian. "No!" protested Sónnica. "One night we put him in charge of the banquet for a joke, and we were all drunk before the third course.
The girl cast furtive glances at him, and then smiled, showing her teeth with juvenile confidence on feeling herself admired. "You are a Greek, are you not?" She spoke like the people of the port, in that strange idiom of a maritime city open to all peoples, a mixture of Celtiberian, Greek, and Latin. "I am from Athens. And you who are you?"
Other Celtiberian women wore strong steel collars with little wires which were brought together above the coiffure, and from this cage, which enclosed the head, hung the veil, proudly displaying their enormous foreheads, brilliant and luminous as the moon in her first quarter. Actæon lingered wondering at the costumes of these women, and at their masculine and warlike aspect.
Brown girls with firm, spare limbs and high foreheads, their hair hanging loose in Celtiberian fashion, marched in pairs carrying from their shoulders long poles on which hung branches of flowers for the ladies of the city.
Hasdrubal perceiving that there were but few Roman troops in the camp, and that their whole dependence was on the Celtiberian auxiliaries; and having had experience of the perfidy of the barbarian nations in general, and particularly of all those nations among which he had served for so many years; as there was every facility of intercourse, for both camps were full of Spaniards, by secret conferences with the chiefs of the Celtiberians, he agreed with them, for a large consideration, to take their forces away.
Alorcus the Celtiberian stood talking with Lachares and three of those young Greeks who so scandalized the Saguntines in the Forum by their effeminate ways. The arrogant barbarian, according to the custom of his race, wore his sword belted to his waist until the banquet began, when he hung it upon the ivory anaclintron of the couch that he might have it ever within reach of his hand.
The formation of transmarine burgess- communities only began at a later date with Carthage and Narbo: yet it is remarkable that Scipio already made a first step, in a certain sense, in that direction. III. VII. Gracchus The chronology of the war with Viriathus is far from being precisely settled. IV. I. Celtiberian War III. VII. Massinissa III. VI. Peace, III. VII. Carthage
Thus was Lusitania subdued, far more by treachery and assassination on the part of foreigners and natives than by honourable war. Numantia While the southern province was scourged by Viriathus and the Lusitanians, a second and not less serious war had, not without their help, broken out in the northern province among the Celtiberian nations.
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