, so natural to mankind.

The Carthaginians, after the battle was over, entreated Scipio to
terminate their contests with Masinissa.(859) Accordingly, he heard both
parties, and the Carthaginians consented to yield up the territory of
Emporium,(860) which had been the first cause of the dispute, to pay
Masinissa two hundred talents of silver down, and eight hundred more, at
such times as should be agreed. But Masinissa insisting on the return of
the exiles, and the Carthaginians being unwilling to agree to this
proposition, they did not come to any decision. Scipio, after having paid
his compliments, and returned thanks to Masinissa, set out with the
elephants for which he had been sent.

The king, immediately after the battle was over, had blocked up the
enemy's camp, which was pitched upon a hill, whither neither troops nor
provisions could come to them.(861) During this interval, there arrived
deputies from Rome, with orders from the senate to decide the quarrel, in
case the king should be defeated; otherwise, to leave it undetermined, and
to give the king the strongest assurances of the continuation of their
friendship; and they complied with the latter injunction. In the mean
time, the famine daily increased in the enemy's camp; and to add to their
calamity, it was followed by a plague, which made dreadful havoc. Being
now reduced to the last extremity, they surrendered to Masinissa,
promising to deliver up the deserters, to pay him five thousand talents of
silver in fifty years, and restore the exiles, notwithstanding their oaths
to the contrary. They all submitted to the ignominious ceremony of passing
under the yoke,(862) and were dismissed, with only one suit of clothes for
each. Gulussa, to satiate his vengeance for the ill treatment which, as we
before observed, he had met with, sent out against them a body of cavalry,
whom, from their great weakness, they could neither escape nor resist. So
that of fifty-eight thousand men, very few returned to Carthage.

(M141) _The Third Punic War._--The third Punic war, which was less
considerable than either of the two former, with regard to the number and
greatness of the battles, and its continuance, which was only four years,
was still more remarkable with respect to the success and event of it, as
it ended in the total ruin and destruction of Carthage.

The inhabitants of this city, from their last defeat, knew what they had
to fear from the Romans, who had uniform