quos fugitis socios? quosve additis? ille ego sanguis Dardanius, cui sacra pater, cui nomina liquit ab Iove ducta Capys, magno cognatus Iulo; ille ego semihomines inter Nasamonas et inter saevum atque aequantem ritus Garamanta ferarum Marmarico ponam tentoria mixtus alumno? ductoremque feram, cui nunc pro foedere proque iustitia est ensis solaeque e sanguine laudes? non ita, non Decio permixtum fasque nefasque, haec ut velle queat.
Compare the allies whom you are deserting with the new allies whom you are gaining. Shall I, with Trojan blood in my veins, I, to whom Capysa of old, the kinsman of great lulus, bequeathed his sacred rites and his name derived from Jupiter'shall I consort with half-human Nasamonians and Garamantians, as cruel and savage as wild beasts, and pitch my tent cheek by jowl with a native of Marmarica? Shall I put up with a leader, whose sword now usurps the place of justice and sworn agreements, and all whose glory is derived from bloodshed? God forbid! Decius does not so confuse right and wrong that he is capable of such a choice.
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