a sacris perfidae mensae et altaribus nefandorum penatium avulsum truculento victori iugulandum tradere non exhorruit? finge accusatorem eius fortuna publica in supplicis nomen conversum tam luctuosam illam opem genibus adnixum orasse: crudeliter tamen repulsus videretur, quia etiam quos iniuriae invisos faciunt, gratiosos miseriae reddunt.
Did Sextilius not shudder to tear him from the rites of a treacherous table and the altars of wicked household gods and hand him over for slaughter to the savage victor? I imagine that if his accuser, turned by public fortune to the name of suppliant, had begged on his knees for that mournful succour, it would even so have seemed cruel to reject him, because even those whom injury makes odious win favour by miseries.
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