My pilot professed that he retained his taste both for the astronomy and the wine.
"And you, Gisgo, did you ever find your ears again?"
"Aye, that I did," was the prompt reply; "and here they are, safe in my purse. And not only my own, but those of the brute who cut them off!" And to the amusement of the suffect, Gisgo gave a graphic description of his splitting the skull of the Siculian chief.
Adonibal had a kind word for all my men, and promised that he would visit them on board their ships, at which he said that he had been looking from his window, and had already formed a favourable opinion of them.
Bread and meat were now laid before us; and while we were sitting at table I asked Adonibal whether amongst the Egyptians that Bodmilcar had sold him there were not some Hellenes.
"Certainly," he said; "a dozen Phocians."
"A woman and a boy?"
"Yes; both a woman and a boy; but as I had no use for them, Bodmilcar kept them; he had an eunuch to take care of them."
"You saw the eunuch, then?"
"Yes; and a great lubberly Syrian he was."