iuvenum fidos, lectissima bello corpora, nunc pretio, nunc ille hortantibus ardens sollicitat dictis, nocturnaque proelia saevus instruit, et (sanctum populis per saecula nomen) legatum insidiis tacitoque invadere ferro (quid regnis non vile?) cupit.
He urges trusty young men, bodies chosen for battle, now with gold, now with ardent persuasion, and viciously sets up a fight by night, eager to violate by ambush and stealthy steel an ambassador, name sacred to peoples throughout the centuries'but what does royalty not hold cheap?
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