“These were consigned to punishment for seeking to put an end to wars. Is Gildo to live that he may kindle them? Takest thou such measures against thy brother as another would disdain to take against an enemy? O shame for unending ages! Gildo entrusts the governance of the south to whom he will; the great province of Africa obeys a tyrant’s whim. To whichever side his fickle mind inclines, he carries Libya over with him and malignantly subjects it to a rule shifting as the tide. Africa was the gift of the Moor. Away with the trickery of the Massyli, their treacherous wiles and their words that breathe forth the poison of their land. Let not brother wage war on brother, I pray. That were worthy of cruel Thebes and Mycenae; let that accusation be levelled against the Moors. “What wrong is Stilicho devising? when did he fail in his obedience? than him what more loyal * * * * * Page 120 ut sileam varios mecum quos gesserit actus, quae vidi post fata, loquar. cum divus abirem, res incompositas (fateor) tumidasque reliqui. stringebat vetitos etiamnum exercitus enses Alpinis odiis, alternaque iurgia victi 295 victoresque dabant. vix haec amentia nostris excubiis, nedum puero rectore quiesset. heu quantum timui vobis, quid libera tanti militis auderet moles, cum patre remoto ferveret iam laeta novis! dissensus acerbus 300 et gravior consensus erat. tunc ipse paterna successit pietate mihi tenerumque rudemque fovit et in veros eduxit principis annos, Rufinumque tibi, quem tu tremuisse fateris, depulit. hunc solum memorem solumque fidelem 305 experior. volui si quid, dum vita maneret, aut visus voluisse, gerit; venerabilis illi ceu praesens numenque vocor. si tanta recusas, at soceri reverere faces, at respice fratris conubium pignusque meae regale Serenae. 310 debueras etiam fraternis obvius ire hostibus, ille tuis. quae gens, quis Rhenus et Hister vos opibus iunctos conspirantesque tulisset? sed tantum permitte, cadat. nil poscimus ultra. ille licet sese praetentis Syrtibus armet 315 oppositoque Atlante tegat, licet arva referta anguibus et solis medios obiecerit aestus: * * * * * Page 121