It destroyed the city and sold the people into slavery to end itsrivalry for once and all. It then had priests symbolically sprinklesalt on a short furrow of a plough to declare that theCarthaginians were ended. The story of salting the land is a sillywild exaggeration – the cost of scarce salt was prohibitive, andthe Romans soon established a colony of retired army veterans onthe land.

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