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In the end, even the Carthaginians who composed the Sacred Battalion,1 twenty-five hundred in number and drawn from the ranks of those citizens who were distinguished for valour and reputation as well as for wealth, were all cut down after a gallant struggle.

1 This unit is mentioned again by Diodorus in another connection, Book 20.10.6.

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