Watch on Soap2day. At Megara, near Carthage (204 B. C.), the slave merchant Sahabalcar lusts after his roman slave Licia, who loves Terentius instead. Threatening her with sacrifice to the man-eating god Moloch, he is still refused. As the rite begins, Terentius rescues her, unleashing lions on the pursuing crowd, and the two lovers escape by boat toward freedom and happiness.