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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: it stretched along beneath the mountain of Ariana on the road to Utica
beside the sea. A fragment remained before Tunis, the rest disappeared
to re-appear on the other shore of the gulf on the outskirts of the
woods in which they were lost.
They were perhaps eighty thousand men. The two Tyrian cities would
offer no resistance, and they would return against Carthage. Already
there was a considerable army attacking it from the base of the
isthmus, and it would soon perish from famine, for it was impossible
to live without the aid of the provinces, the citizens not paying
contributions as they did at Rome. Carthage was wanting in political
genius. Her eternal anxiety for gain prevented her from having the
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