38.

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.

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