A romantic love story during war

It had been at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, into the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers who he'd commanded in Sicily had been having a feast that is fantastic celebrate the anniversary for the battle of Eryx, so that as the master had been away, in addition they had been many, they consumed and drank with perfect freedom. The captains, who wore cothurni that is bronze had put by themselves within the main course, beneath a gold-fringed purple awning, which reached through the wall surface associated with stables to your very first terrace for the palace; the most popular soldiers had been spread underneath the woods, where many flat-roofed structures may be seen, winepresses, cellars, storehouses, bakeries, and arsenals, having a court for elephants, dens for crazy beasts, and a jail for slaves. Fig-trees surrounded the kitchen areas; a timber of sycamores stretched away to generally meet public of verdure, where in fact the shone that is pomegranate the white tufts regarding the cotton-plant; vines, grape-laden, spent my youth into the branches of this pines; a industry of flowers bloomed under the plane-trees; occasionally lilies rocked upon the turf; the paths had been strewn with black colored sand mingled with powdered coral, as well as in the centre the opportunity of cypress created, since it had been, a dual colonnade of green obelisks from a single extremity to another. Far within the back ground endured the palace, built of yellowish mottled marble that is numidian broad courses supporting its four terraced tales

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