In which the city of Carthage erupts into a grand festival to celebrate the marriage of Salammbô, blending solemn ritual and frenzied spectacle beneath the watchful eyes of its populace, whose thirst for retribution against a captured foe pervades the air. Amidst the splendour and tumult, the condemned Matho is led forth to suffer and endure the crowd’s merciless torment, while Salammbô’s presence casts a spell of poignant gravity upon the scene.