also, after making an effort to defend it, when he saw every place
filled with the enemy, and that there was no hope, surrendered himself
and the citadel, with the garrison. Until the citadel was surrendered,
the massacre was continued in every quarter throughout the city; nor
did they spare any one they met who had arrived at puberty: but after
that, on a signal given, a stop was put to the carnage, and the
victors turned their attention to the plunder, of which there was an
immense quantity of every description.

47. Of males of free condition, as many as ten thousand were captured.
Of these he allowed to depart such as were citizens of New Carthage;
and restored to them their city, and all their property which the war
had left them. The artisans amounted to two thousand, whom he assigned
to the Roman people as their property; holding out to them a hope of
speedy emancipation, provided they should address themselves
strenuously to the service of the war. Of the rest of the mass of
inhabitants, the young men and able-bodied slaves he assigned for the
service of the fleet, to fill up the numbers of the rowers. He had
also augmented his fleet with five ships which he had captured.
Besides this multitude, there remained the Spanish hostages, to whom
as much attention was paid as if they had been children of allies. An
immense quantity of military stores was also taken; one hundred and
twenty catapultae of the larger size, two hundred and eighty-one of
the smaller; twenty-three ballistae of the larger size, fifty-two of
the smaller; an immense number of scorpions of the larger and smaller
size, and also of arms and missile weapons; and seventy-four military
standards. Of gold and silver, an immense quantity was brought to the
general; there were two hundred and seventy-six golden bowls, almost
all of them weighing a pound; of silver, wrought and coined, eighteen
thousand three hundred pounds' weight; and of silver vessels an
immense number. All these were weighed and reckoned to the quaestor,
Caius Flaminius. There were twenty thousand pecks of wheat, and two
hundred and seventy of barley. One hundred and thirteen ships of
burden were boarded and captured in the harbour, some of them with
their cargoes, consisting of corn and arms, besides brass, iron,
sails, spartum, and other naval materials, of use in equipping a
fleet; so that amid such large military stores which were captured,
Carthage itself was of the least conside