Sed fas id Celtis, fas impia bella referre Boiorum fuerit populis: Capuaene furorem, quem Senonum genti, placuisse, et Dardana ab ortu moenia barbarico Nomadum sociata tyranno quisnam, mutato tantum nunc tempore, credat? luxus et insanis nutrita ignavia lustris consumptusque pudor peccando unisque relictus divitiis probrosus honor lacerabat hiantem desidia populum ac resolutam legibus urbem.
It might be lawful for Celts, lawful for the tribes of the Boii, to renew impious warfare; but who could believe that Capua would take the same mad decision as the tribe of Senones,d and that a city of Trojan origine would ally herself with a barbarous ruler of Numidians'who could believe this now, when times have changed so greatly? But luxury, and sloth fed by riotous debauchery, and utter shamelessness in sinning, and scandalous respect for wealth and wealth alone'such vices preyed upon an indolent and listless people and a city freed from the restraints of law. Their savage cruelty also bore them to their doom.
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