Verum ut ipsum fontem perfidiae contemplemur, Carthaginienses Xanthippum Lacedaemonium, cuius optima opera primo Punico bello usi fuerant et quo iuvante Atilium Regulum ceperant, simulantes domum se revehere, in alto merserunt, quid tanto facinore petentes? an ne victoriae eorum socius superesset? exstat nihilo minus, et quidem cum opprobrio, quem sine ulla gloriae iactura inviolatum reliquissent.
But to contemplate the very fountain of treachery: the Carthaginians drowned the Spartan Xanthippus in the sea while pretending to give him a passage home, whose excellent service they had used in the Second Punic War and with whose assistance they had captured Atilius Regulus. What did they seek to gain by so great a misdeed? Was it that they did not want a partner in their victory to survive? None the less he is still here and to their reproach, whereas they might have left him unharmed without any loss of glory.
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