perfidiam nec nos patimur committere tali. 265 hoc genus emptori cives cum moenibus offert, hoc vendit patriam. plerique in tempus abusi mox odere tamen: tenuit sic Graia Philippus oppida; Pellaeo libertas concidit auro. Romani scelerum semper sprevere ministros. 270 noxia pollicitum domino miscere venena Fabricius regi nudata fraude remisit, infesto quem Marte petit, bellumque negavit per famuli patrare nefas, ductosque Camillus trans murum pueros obsessae reddidit urbi. 275 “Traduntur poenis alii, cum proelia tollunt; hic manet ut moveat? quod respuit alter in hostem, suscipis in fratrem? longi pro dedecus aevi! cui placet, australes Gildo condonat habenas tantaque mutatos sequitur provincia mores. 280 quaslibet ad partes animus nutaverit anceps, transfundit secum Libyam refluumque malignus commodat imperium. Mauri fuit Africa munus. tollite Massylas fraudes, removete bilingues insidias et verba soli spirantia virus. 285 ne consanguineis certetur comminus armis, ne, precor. haec trucibus Thebis, haec digna Mycenis; in Mauros hoc crimen eat. “Quid noster iniquum molitur Stilicho? quando non ille iubenti paruit? an quisquam nobis devinctior extat? 290 * * * * * Page 119 we condemn the treachery nor brook to entrust ourselves to such protection. ’Tis this sort that offers for purchase cities and their inhabitants, that sells its fatherland. Most make use of such for the moment but soon learn to hate them. ’Twas thus that Philip held the cities of Greece; liberty fell before the attack of Macedonian gold. Rome has ever despised the ministers of guilt. Fabricius, discovering the plot, sent back to King Pyrrhus the slave who had promised to mingle deadly poison for his lord; fierce war raged between them, but Fabricius refused to end it by means of the treachery of a slave. Camillus, too, gave back to the beleaguered city the boys brought to his camp from out the walls.