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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: of silphium must be sold, and the trading towns taxed; the Mercenaries
would grow impatient; Tunis was already with them; and the rich,
stunned by Hanno's ragings and his colleague's reproaches, urged any
citizens who might know a Barbarian to go to see him immediately in
order to win back his friendship, and to speak him fair. Such a show
of confidence would soothe them.
Traders, scribes, workers in the arsenal, and whole families visited
the Barbarians.
The soldiers allowed all the Carthaginians to come in, but by a single
passage so narrow that four men abreast jostled one another in it.
Spendius, standing against the barrier, had them carefully searched;
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