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horace-works_63		horace-works_63			.txt	text/plain	432	20	65	And has( O[ corrupted] senate, and degenerate morals!) the Marsian and Apulian, unmindful of the sacred bucklers, of the[ Roman] name and gown, and of eternal Vesta, grown old in the lands of hostile fathersinlaw, Jupiter and the city being in safety? I have beheld, said he, the Roman standards affixed to the Carthaginian temples, and their arms taken away from our soldiers without bloodshed. If the hind, disentangled from the thickset toils, ever fights, then indeed shall he be valorous, who has intrusted himself to faithless foes; and he shall trample upon the Carthaginians in a second war, who dastardly has felt the thongs with his arms tied behind him, and has been afraid of death. He( Regulus) is reported to have rejected the embrace of his virtuous wife and his little sons like one degraded; and to have sternly fixed his manly countenance on the ground, until, as an adviser, by his counsel he confirmed the wavering senators, and amid his weeping friends hastened away, a glorious exile.	./cache/horace-works_63.txt	./txt/horace-works_63.txt