Grati prorsus coniugibus quas iuvenes duximus revertemur ! Liberi in flore et aetatis et rerum agnoscent patres ergastuli detrimenta ! Et quota pars nostri tot obire terras potest? Procul Europa in ultima Orientis relegati, senes debiles, maiore membrorum parte mulcati tolerabimus scilicet, quae armatos et victores fatigarunt! Coniuges deinde, quas captis fors et necessitas unicum solacium applicuit, parvosque liberos trahimus nobiscum an relinquimus? Cum his venientes nemo agnoscere volet; relinquemus ergo extemplo praesentia pignora, cum incertum sit an visuri simus illa quae petimus? Inter hos latendum est qui nos miseros nosse coeperunt.
Welcome forsooth shall we return to the wives whom we married in our youth ! Our children in the bloom both of their age and their fortunes will of course recognize as their fathers the off-scourings of the slave-prison ! And how many of us can traverse so many lands? Far from Europe, banished to the ends of the Orient, old and weak, with the greater part of our bodies battered, can we, forsooth, endure what has wearied armed men flushed with victory? What then of the wives whom chance and necessity have joined to us as our sole consolation, and their little children'do we drag them with us or leave them behind? If we come with these, no one will be willing to own us; shall we, then, at once abandon those dear ones who are with us, when it is uncertain whether we shall ever see those whom we seek? We must remain hidden among those who have begun to know us in this wretched plight.
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