Let him, in token of the favour free,
Entomb within the flame the wretched dead,
A duty this of highest charity!
Come quick, come now! O whither have ye sped?
My life the highest sacrifice will be;
That sweet compassion, which to friends ye show,
Change now to rabid rage against the foe!
A Numantine.
Whom, brave Theogenes, dost thou invoke?
What novel mode of dying dost thou seek?