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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: reproach me for having lost the battle against Hanno, nevertheless I
won it back again. Confess it! my herd of swine did more for us than a
phalanx of Spartans." And yielding to the need that he felt of
exalting himself and taking his revenge, he enumerated all that he had
done for the cause of the Mercenaries. "It was I who urged on the Gaul
in the Suffet's gardens! And later, at Sicca, I maddened them all with
fear of the Republic! Gisco was sending them back, but I prevented the
interpreters speaking. Ah! how their tongues hung out of their mouths!
do you remember? I brought you into Carthage; I stole the zaimph. I
led you to her. I will do more yet: you shall see!" He burst out
laughing like a madman.
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