ante omnes pigra in Martem fugiensque laborum, dum bellum tonat, et sese furata iuventus dat poenas latebrae; tum, qui dulcedine vitae invenere dolos iurataque foedera Poeno corrupere, notant et purgant crimine gentem.
First of all, they punished for their slackness all those who had been slow to enlist and face hardship, and had concealed themselves amid the thunder of war; and next they condemned the men who had clung to life and therefore devised a trick to evade the sworn agreement made with the Carthaginians; and so the nation was cleared of that guilt.
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