Sacrum quoque, quod equidem dis minime cordi esse crediderim, multis saeculis intermissum repetendi auctores quidam erant, ut ingenuus puer Saturno immolaretur'quod sacrilegium verius quam sacrum Carthaginienses a conditoribus traditum usque ad excidium urbis suae fecisse dicuntur', ac nisi seniores obstitissent, quorum consilio cuncta agebantur, humanitatem dira superstitio vicisset.
Some even proposed renewing a sacrifice which had been discontinued for many years, and which I for my part should believe to be by no means pleasing to the gods, of offering a freeborn boy to Saturn 'this sacrilege rather than sacrifice, handed down from their founders, the Carthaginians are said to have performed until the destruction of their city 'and unless the elders, in accordance with whose counsel everything was done, had opposed it, the awful superstition would have prevailed over mercy.
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