of his retainers ，and in a few days returned to Scipio 'With a picked force of 1400 mounted men. LL Scipio Inapt， Laelius with him， to advise as to the disposal of the prison ers. the hostagres and the oootv, and when ail had 了、‘J.户产 been arranged，he assigned him one of the captured quinque- 气J , remes. and placing on board Mago and some fifteen senators ，J‘、.尸 who had been made prisoners with him.he sent Laelius to Rome to report his victory. He had himself decided to spend a few days in New Carthage, and he employed this time in exercising his military and naval forces. On the first day the legions, fully equipped, went through various evolutions over a space of four miles;the second day was employed in rubbing up and sharpening 。weapons in front of their tents;the third day they engag ed in regular battle practice with single-sticks and darts. the points of which were muffled with balls of cork or lead; the fourth day they rested.and on the fifth then were again exercised under arms. This alternation of, exercise and rest was kept up as long as they remained in Carthage. The rowers and marines put out to sea when the weather was，calm and tested the speed and handiness of their ships in a sham fight.‘ nd and sea r war;the "nese manoeuvres going on outside tree city on issharpened the men both physically and mentally f ocity itself resounded with the din of warlike cocarried on by the artisans of every kind who were kein the Government workshops. The general devoted h nstructions pt together is attention equally to everything. At one time he was present with the fleet watching a naval encounter;at another he was exercising his legions:then he would be giving some hours to an inspection of the work which was going on in the shops and in the arsenal and dockyards, where the vast number of artisans were vying with each other as to who could work the hardest. After starting these various undertakings and seeing that the damaged portions of the walls were repaired, he started for Tarraco.leaving a detachment in the city for its protection. On his way he was met by numerous delegations;some of them he dismissed, after giving his reply while still on the march; others he put off till he reached Tarraco, where he had given notice to all the allies, old and new, to meet him. Almost all the tribes south of the Ebro obeyed the summons, as did many also from the northern provin ce. The Carthaginian generals did their best to suppress any rumours of the f facts came out too clearly t they tried to minimise its importance. It was by a， sudden ruse,J ., > >煦ost by stealth, they said。that one city out of the whole of -}pam 矛.户J‘ had been filched from them in a single day elated with this trifling success had in th delight made believe that it was a great victory. But when he learnt that three generals and three victorious armies were ·bearing down upon him he would be painfully reminded of the deaths which had already visited his family. This was what they told people generally, but they themselves were perfectly aware how much their strength was in every way weakened by the loss of New Carthage.28