3. Districtus ensis cui super impia
Cervice pendet, non 'Siculae dapes'
Dulcem elaborabunt saporern:
Non avium citharaeque cantus
Somnum reducent.
Horat. Carm. iii. 1.
Sidonius concludes his letter with the story of Damocles,
which Cicero (Tusculan. v. 20, 21) had so inimitably told.