A few of the many fugitives who were able to dash back to Carthage and hide themselves by scattering throughout the large, populous city were saved. The remaining mass were picked off by the spearmen and butchered by the infantry as they crowded round the gates, each desperately trying to get inside. The whole city, women and children, mourned their loved ones, cut down before their eyes.
Edition :
Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume I: Books 1-4. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 454. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.
Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume II: Books 5-8. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 455. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Remark :
victim: The inadequacy in terms of experience and equipment of the Carthaginians compared to the troops of Capellianus is further described in the previous lines. (7.9.3-5)
