Note 038
Instat terribilis vivis, morientibus haeres,
Virginibus raptor, thalamis obscenus adulter.
Nulla quies: oritur praeda cessante libido,
Divitibusque dies, et nox metuenda maritis.
___Mauris clarissima quaeque
Fastidita datur.__
De Bello Gildonico, 165, 189.
Baronius condemns, still more severely, the licentiousness
of Gildo; as his wife, his daughter, and his sister, were
examples of perfect chastity. The adulteries of the African
soldiers are checked by one of the Imperial laws.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
Chapter 29