Eadem caritas Italico bello Pinnensem iuvenem, cui Pultoni erat cognomen, tanto animi corporisque robore armavit ut cum obsessae urbis suae claustris praesideret, et Romanus imperator patrem eius captivum in conspectu ipsius constitutum destrictis militum gladiis circumdedisset, occisurum se minitans nisi irruptioni suae iter praebuisset, solus e manibus senem rapuerit, duplici pietate memorandus, quod et patris servator nec patriae fuit proditor.
The same affection armed with strength of mind and body a young man of Pinna, surnamed Pulto, in the Italian War. He was in charge of the defences of his besieged town, and the Roman commander had placed his father, who was a prisoner, before his eyes surrounded by soldiers with drawn swords, threatening to kill him unless Pulto let his assault party through. Single-handed, Pulto snatched the old man out of their clutches. He is to be commemorated for a double piety, because he was both his fathers preserver and no traitor to his fatherland.
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