nec, quos culpa tulit, quos crimine noxia vita, sed virtus animusque ferox ad laudis amorem, hi crevere pares ferro; spectacula digna Martigena vulgo suetique laboris imago.
The swordsmen thus matched in arms were not men whom guilt and a life of crime had brought to this: valour urged them on and their eager desire of glory. It was a sight befitting the soldier sons of Mars,a and an imitation of their accustomed task.
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