eos qu<oqu>e gravi nota adfecerunt qui cum in potestatem Hannibalis venissent, legati ab eo missi ad senatum de permutandis captivis neque impetrato quod petebant, in urbe manserunt, quia et Romano sanguini fidem praestare conveniens erat et M. Atilius Regulus censor perfidiam notabat, cuius pater per summos cruciatus exspirare quam fallere Carthaginienses satius esse duxerat.
They also visited with a heavy stigma some persons who had come into Hannibals power. They had been sent by him as envoys to the senate to negotiate an exchange of prisoners, and having failed in their mission, stayed on in the city. For to keep faith was fitting to Roman blood, and the Censor who stigmatized their perfidy was M. Atilius Regulus, whose father had preferred to die in agonizing torments rather than break his word to the Carthaginians.
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