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[4] For the fate that had befallen Selinus and Himera and Acragas1 as well terrified the populace, all of whom felt as if they had actually been eyewitnesses of the savagery of the Carthaginians. For among them there was no sparing their captives, but they were without compassion for the victims of Fortune of whom they would crucify some and upon others inflict unbearable outrages.

1 Cp. chaps. 57 f., 62, and 90 respectively.

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