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