Kitap 8
32
He told off two thousand of his Celts: and, having divided them into three companies, he assigned two of the young men who had managed the plot to each company; and sent with them also certain of his own officers, with orders to close up the several most convenient streets that led to the market-place. And when he had done this, he bade the young men of the town pick out and save those of their fellow-citizens whom they might chance to meet, by shouting out before they came up with them, That Tarentines should remain where they were, as they were in no danger; but he ordered both Carthaginian and Celtic officers to kill all the Romans they met.