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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Other Syrians and Libyans command large troops of mercenaries, and the herald Ben Mazana, one of the highest dignitaries of the court the Egyptians call him Rameses in the sanctuary of Ra has a Hebrew father." "And neither he nor the others are scorned on account of their birth?" "This is not quite so. But why do you ask these questions?" "I could not sleep." "And so such thoughts came to you.
He took for his hero Ramses the Great, and endeavoured to rival him in everything, and for a period the imperial power revived. In the fifth year of his reign he was able to repulse the confederated Libyans with complete success. Victories over other enemies followed, and also peace and prosperity.
"A great throng of people are approaching our ravine, not troops, however, but unarmed men, with children and women; at the head of them is Musawasa, and the foremost of the Libyans." "What does this mean?" "Evidently they wish to beg peace of thee." "After one battle?" asked the prince, with wonder. "But what a battle! Besides, fear increases our army in their eyes. They fear invasion and death."
Excepting a few Ligurians among the light troops, there were no mercenaries in this Carthaginian army; the troops, with the exception of some Phoenician squadrons, consisted mainly of the Carthaginian subjects called out for service Libyans and Spaniards.
The large pavilion, in which Rameses and his suite were taking their evening meal, was more brilliantly lighted than all the others; it was a covered tent, a long square in shape, and all round it were colored lamps, which made it as light as day; a body-guard of Sardinians, Libyans, and Egyptians guarded it with drawn swords, and seemed too wholly absorbed with the importance of their office even to notice the dishes and wine-jars, which the king's pages the sons of the highest families in Egypt took at the tent-door from the cooks and butlers.
To tell you the truth, I have asked them already to exhibit their prowess on these Libyans, and what do you suppose they answered? 'They refused, I hope. 'They told me in the most insolent tone that they were men, and not stage-players; and hired to fight, and not to butcher. I expected a Socratic dialogue after such a display of dialectic, and bowed myself out. 'They were right.
They are Carthaginians indeed; true sons of Phœnicia, with no other conception of glory than trade, nor other aspiration than to find new ports where they can market their wares! We Barcas are Libyans; we descend from the gods; like them we have greatness of thought; we must be masters, or die!
The Libyans and Nomads composing the army under Autaritus knew scarcely anything of these Mercenaries, who were men of Italiote or Greek race; and the offer by the Republic of so many Barbarians for so few Carthaginians, showed that the value of the former was nothing and that of the latter considerable. They dreaded a snare. Autaritus refused.
'The Amphitheatre? We shall exhibit the Libyans, too, in the Theatre. 'Combats in the Theatre sacred to Dionusos? 'My dear lady' penitently 'I know it is an offence against all the laws of the drama. 'Oh, worse than that! Consider what an impiety toward the god, to desecrate his altar with bloodshed?
The agricultural villages of the surrounding region agriculture appears to have been introduced among the Libyans at a very early period, probably anterior to the Phoenician settlement, and presumably from Egypt were subdued by force of arms, and the free Libyan farmers were transformed into fellahs, who paid to their lords a fourth part of the produce of the soil as tribute, and were subjected to a regular system of recruiting for the formation of a home Carthaginian army.
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