The Greek saw no more. He sank finally into eternal night. Hannibal galloped on around the city, and beholding the purplish glow of the coming day breaking over the sea, he reined in his horse, he looked into the East, and extending his arm, impatient to stretch it across the blue expanse bounded by the horizon, he shouted threateningly, as if challenging an invisible enemy before falling upon it: "Rome!----Rome!" End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Sónnica, by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez