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| Cæsar’s Statement Regarding the Universal Custom of an Enemy When Sacking a City.
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Chapter 5.—Cæsar’s Statement
Regarding the Universal Custom of an Enemy When Sacking a
City.
Even Cæsar himself gives us
positive testimony regarding this custom; for, in his deliverance
in the senate about the conspirators, he says (as Sallust, a
historian of distinguished veracity, writes45
) “that virgins and boys are
violated, children torn from the embrace of their parents, matrons
subjected to whatever should be the pleasure of the conquerors,
temples and houses plundered, slaughter and burning rife; in fine,
all things filled with arms, corpses, blood, and wailing.” If
he had not mentioned temples here, we might suppose that enemies
were in the habit of sparing the dwellings of the gods. And the
Roman temples were in danger of these disasters, not from foreign
foes, but from Catiline and his associates, the most noble senators
and citizens of Rome. But these, it may be said, were abandoned
men, and the parricides of their fatherland.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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