Augustine (Aurelius Augustine), Saint of Hippo · composed 413–426; published/issued in installments during composition
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regard them with favour, they might yet be left to mourn an unhappy lot, or might, even like Regulus and the Saguntines, be horribly tormented, and at last perish miserably.
- Of the ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, its deliverer, and of
its manners during the period which Sallust describes as the best.
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