By this battle the war with the Veneti and the whole of the sea coast was finished; for both all the youth, and all, too, of more advanced age, in whom there was any discretion or rank, had assembled in that battle; and they had collected in that one place whatever naval forces they had anywhere; and when these were lost, the survivors had no place to retreat to, nor means of defending their towns.
Ludos et inania honorismedio rationis atque abundantiae duxit, uti longe a luxuria ita famae propior.latin-ancient latin-ancient