Let us not trade, but combat in the field:
Steel and not gold our being must maintain,
And prove which nation Fortune wills to reign.
Whom chance of war, despite of valour, spared,
I grant them freedom, and without reward.
Conduct them then, by all the mighty Gods!
Conduct them freely to their own abodes.”
“His friend he called—who at his table fared,
And all his counsels and his converse shared;
With whom he oft consumed the day’s decline