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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: elevated of them, after rocking to and fro, rebounded to the bottom.
In fact, if they were immovable on the side of the Barbarians--for it
would have been necessary to urge them up an incline plane, and they
were, moreover, heaped together owing to the narrowness of the gorge--
on the others, on the contrary, it was sufficient to drive against
them with violence to make them descend. The Carthaginians pushed
them, and at daybreak they projected into the plain like the steps of
an immense ruined staircase.
The Barbarians were still unable to climb them. Ladders were held out
for their assistance; all rushed upon them. The discharge of a
catapult drove the crowd back; only the Ten were taken away.
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