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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: exchequer and again began to kill. The word "strike," though different
in each language, was understood by all.
Gisco was well aware that he was being abandoned by his country; but
in spite of its ingratitude he would not dishonour it. When they
reminded him that they had been promised ships, he swore by Moloch to
provide them himself at his own expense, and pulling off his necklace
of blue stones he threw it into the crowd as the pledge of his oath.
Then the Africans claimed the corn in accordance with the engagements
made by the Great Council. Gisco spread out the accounts of the
Syssitia traced in violet pigment on sheep skins; and read out all
that had entered Carthage month by month and day by day.
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