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Updated: June 8, 2025
The sight of these strong animals, sacred to Baal, gave the Carthaginians even more joy than the arrival of such relief; it was a token of the tenderness of the god, a proof that he was at last about to interfere in the war to defend them. Narr' Havas received the compliments of the Ancients. Then he ascended to Salammbo's palace.
Salammbo's serpent had several times already refused the four live sparrows which were offered to it at the full moon and at every new moon. Its handsome skin, covered like the firmament with golden spots upon a perfectly black ground, was now yellow, relaxed, wrinkled, and too large for its body.
The Acropolis was hidden beneath coloured velaria; the beaks of the triremes, drawn up in line outside the mole, shone like a dyke of diamonds; everywhere there was a sense of the restoration of order, the beginning of a new existence, and the diffusion of vast happiness: it was the day of Salammbo's marriage with the King of the Numidians.
He even let the crowd enter his palace, and he opened kitchens, stores, and all the rooms, Salammbo's alone excepted. He announced that six thousand Gaulish Mercenaries were coming, and that the king of Macedonia was sending soldiers. But on the second day the springs diminished, and on the evening of the third they were completely dried up.
And with lingering tones he imitated Salammbo's voice, while his outspread hands were held like two light hands on the strings of a lyre. To all the consolations offered by Spendius, he repeated the same words; their nights were spent in these wailings and exhortations. Matho sought to drown his thoughts in wine. After his fits of drunkenness he was more melancholy still.
He was as though suffocated at first. But speedily understanding that any denial would be in vain, Hamilcar bowed; and he brought them into the commercial house. Some slaves who had run up at a sign kept watch all round about it. He entered Salammbo's room in a state of distraction.
They were upbraided with all the crimes of the Mercenaries; their gluttony, their thefts, their impiety, their disdain, and the murder of the fishes in Salammbo's garden.
Soldiers were carting faggots, resting on their elbows on the ground, or wrapping themselves up in mats and preparing to sleep; and Salammbo's horse sometimes stretched out a leg and jumped in order to pass over them. She remembered that she had seen them before; but their beards were longer now, their faces still blacker, and their voices hoarser.
There were lotus-trees encircling a fountain in which fish like Salammbo's were swimming; and then in the background, against the wall of the temple, spread a vine, the branches of which were of glass and the grape-bunches of emerald, the rays from the precious stones making a play of light through the painted columns upon the sleeping faces.
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