Viriathi etiam caedes duplicem perfidiae accusationem recipit, in amicis quod eorum manibus interemptus est, in Q. Servilio Caepione consule quia is sceleris huius auctor impunitate promissa fuit, victoriamque non meruit sed emit.
The murder of Viriathus too is open to a double charge of treachery, one involving his friends, because he was killed by their hands, the other Consul Q. Servilius Caepio, in that he instigated the crime with a promise of immunity. He did not earn victory, he bought it.
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