immemor hic dextraeque datae iunctique per aras foederis, et mensas testes atque hospita iura fasque fidemque simul, pravo mutatus amore, ruperat atque toros regni mercede pararat.
For Syphax, forgetting his pledged word, the alliance to which he had sworn, and the ties of hospitality cemented by meals in common, had broken faith and divine, law; an ill-judged passion had changed his mind, and he had bought his bride at the price of his throne.
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