Malo a cive spoliari quam ab hoste venire. Eton Gram.
I had rather be stripped by a citizen than sold by an enemy.
The Romans were regularly sold by the enemy for once, when they had to go under the yoke.
Verbs of the Infinitive Mood.
Verbs of the infinitive mood are put after some verbs, participles, and adjectives, and substantives also by the poets, as
Timotheus ursos saltare fecit:
Timotheus made the bears dance.
This was done in ancient as it is in modern times, by playing the Pandean pipes.
Inconcinnus erat cerni Telamonius Ajax;
Ajax (ut referunt) vir bonus ire minor: