Note 049 Quamvis fortitudini vestrae confidentiam tribuat parentum vestrorum innumerabilis multitudo; quamvis Attilam potentem reminiscamini Visigotharum viribus inclinatum; tamen quia populorum ferocia corda longa pace mollescunt, cavete subito in aleam mittere, quos constat tantis temporibus exercitia non habere. Such was the salutary but fruitless advice of peace, of reason, and of Theodoric (Cassiodor. 1. iii. Ep. 2 [ed. Rotom. 1679]).

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