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Hamilcar resumed: "If you had loved me as much as him there would be great joy in Carthage now! How many times did I not call upon you! and you always refused me money!" "We had need of it," said the chiefs of the Syssitia.
The state of things may to some extent be illustrated by the fact, that among the Boeotians where, it is true, matters reached their worst it had become customary to make over every property, which did not descend to heirs in the direct line, to the -syssitia-; and, in the case of candidates for the public magistracies, for a quarter of a century the primary condition of election was that they should bind themselves not to allow any creditor, least of all a foreign one, to sue his debtor.
Sup with me here on deck, friends a supper for sober companions sober as the Laconian Syssitia, and let not Spartans say that our manners are spoilt by the luxuries of Byzantium."
"As to the ships chartered in common, it has often been necessary to throw the cargo into the seas, and so the unequal losses have been divided among the partners. For the ropes which were borrowed from the arsenals, and which it was impossible to restore, the Syssitia exacted eight hundred kesitahs before the expedition to Utica."
In the buildings of the Syssitia there were twelve hundred marriageable slaves destined for prostitution in Greece and Italy, and their hair, having been rendered elastic by the use of unguents, was wonderfully well adapted for engines of war. But the subsequent loss would be too great.
The power of Carthage emanated, therefore, from the Syssitia, that is to say, from a large court in the centre of Malqua, at the place, it was said, where the first bark of Phoenician sailors had touched, the sea having retired a long way since then.
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