pro! quanto levius mortalibus aegra subire servitia atque hiemes aestusque fugamque fretumque atque famem, quam posse mori! post Itala bella Assyrio famulus regi falsusque cupiti Ausoniae motus, dubio petet aequora velo, donec, Prusiacas delatus segniter oras, altera servitia imbelli patietur in aevo et latebram munus regni.
Ah, how much easier men find it to bear cold and heat and hunger, bitter slavery and exile, and the perils of the sea, rather than face death! After the war in Italy he will serve a Syrian king,c and, cheated of his hope to make war against Rome, he will put to sea with no certain destination, and at last drift idly to the land of Prusias,d where, too old to fight any more, he will suffer a second slavery and find a hiding-place by the kings favour.
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