isque receptus in medios coetus'neque enim differre dabatur' itis, ait, cives, violanda ad iura parentum, damnatumque caput temerati foederis aris iungitis hospitio? quae tanta oblivio recti? magnum atque in magnis positum populisque virisque adversam ostentare fidem.
When he was admitted to the conclave and temporizing was impossible, he spoke thus: Fellow-citizens, are you about to violate the ties which our fathers cherished, and make friends with a man whom the gods have condemned for breach of treaty? How utterly you have forgotten the path of duty! It is a noble thing, and a property of noble nations and noble men, to show loyalty to the distressed.
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