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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: wine, oil, barley, dates, pitch and sulphur for sieges, twenty
thousand foot-soldiers and ten thousand horses. If I address myself to
you, Matho, it is because the possession of the zaimph has made you
chief man in the army. Moreover," he added, "we are old friends."
Matho, however, was looking at Spendius, who, seated on the sheep-
skins, was listening, and giving little nods of assent the while.
Narr' Havas continued speaking. He called the gods to witness he
cursed Carthage. In his imprecations he broke a javelin. All his men
uttered simultaneously a loud howl, and Matho, carried away by so much
passion, exclaimed that he accepted the alliance.
A white bull and a black sheep, the symbols of day and night, were
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