Liberos cuique ac propinquos suos natura carissimos esse voluit: hi per dilectus alibi servituri auferuntur: coniuges sororesque etiam si hostilem libidinem effugerunt, nomine amicorum atque hospitum polluuntur bona fortunaeque in tributum, ager atque annus in frumentum, corpora ipsa ac manus silvis ac paludibus emuniendis inter verbera ac contumelias  conteruntur.
Children and kin are by the law of nature each mans dearest possessions; they are swept away from us by conscription to be slaves in other lands: our wives and sisters, even when they escape a soldiers lust, are debauched by self-styled friends and guests: our goods and chattels go for tribute; our lands and harvests in requisitions of grain; life and limb themselves are worn out in making roads through marsh and forest to the accompaniment of gibes and blows.
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