The Complete Works Of Gustave Flaubert Volume 4
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The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert Volume 4
Author | : Gustave Flaubert |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230330921 |
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...was encompassing these two towns. Then they went northwards at haphazard without even knowing the various routes. Their many miseries had confused their understandings. The only feeling left them was one of exasperation, which went on developing; and one day they found themselves again in the gorges of Cobus and once more before Carthage! Then the actions multiplied. Fortune remained equal; but both sides were so wearied that they would willingly have exchanged these skirmishes for a great battle, provided that it were really the last. Matho was inclined to carry this proposal himself to the Suffet. One of his Libyans devoted himself for the purpose. All were convinced as they saw him depart that he would not return. He returned the same evening. Hamilcar accepted their challenge. The encounter should take place the following day at sunrise, in the plain of Rhades. The Mercenaries wished to know whether he had said anything more, and the Libyan added: "As I remained in his presence, he asked me what I was waiting for. 'To be killed!' I replied. Then he rejoined: 'No! begone! that will be to-morrow with the rest.'" This generosity astonished the Barbarians; some were terrified by it, and Matho regretted that the emissary had not been killed. He had still remaining three thousand Africans, twelve hundred Greeks, fifteen hundred Campanians, two hundred Iberians, four hundred Etruscans, five hundred Samnites, forty Gauls, and a troop of Naffurs, nomad bandits met with in the date region--in all seven thousand two hundred and nineteen soldiers, but not one complete syntagma. They had stopped up the holes In their cuirasses with the shoulder-blades of quadrupeds, and replaced their brass cothurni with worn sandals. Their garments were weighted...
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