Illi numquam se inimicos ei, sed bello lacessitos se inimicos hosti fuisse respondent; si quis ipsos beneficio quam iniuria experiri maluisset, certaturos fuisse ne vincerentur  officio.
They replied that they had never been unfriendly to him, but that when provoked to war they were enemies of their foe. If one had preferred to try them with kindness rather than with injury, they would have striven not to be  outdone in courtesy.
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