o pietas, o sancta fides! traduxit alumnos maiestas infida locos, et creditur istis numinibus quae transfugio meruere sacrari! an voluit servare suos luctataque multum religio infestas temptavit pellere turmas Romanis obnixa globis, sed fortior illam virtus luctifico camporum in pulvere fregit? immo ita est, armis et viribus indiga veri victa superstitio est et inanem gloria fugit.
What loyalty! What sacred faith! These great ones proved faithless and delivered over places they once fostered! Trust is put now in these powers which have earned their worship by desertion! Or did these holy ones seek to save their peoples and struggle hard in an effort to drive off the squadrons that attacked them, striving against the Roman companies, but did stouter valour break them in the woeful dust of the field? Yea, so it is. Superstition devoid of truth was overcome by arms and strength, glory fled from it because it was empty.
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