long as they are confined in darkness—alas! how vast
a war will they wage, each with each, if they shall attain 10
the light of day, what arraying of hosts, what carnage
will there be! Father-in-law and son-in-law,[233] the one
coming down from Alpine ramparts and the stronghold
of Monœcus: the other drawn up against him with the
forces of the east. Do not, do not, my children, make 15
wars like these familiar to your spirits: turn not your
country’s valour against your country’s vitals: and you,
restrain yourself the first: you, whose lineage is from