The Speech of Camillus against migrating to Veii.-" So Painp i ful to me, Quirites, are controversies with the tribunes of the plebs, that all the time I lived at Ardea my one consolation运 my bitter exile was that I was far removed front these conflicts. As far as they are concerned I would never have returned even if you recalled me by a thousand senatorial decrees and popular votes. And now that I am returned, it was not change of mind on my part but change of fortune on yours that compelled me. The question at stake was whether my country was to remain unshaken i吵er seat, not whether， I was to be in my country of any coss苦·_.-,yen ng班于万ouia g份aly ry早砚ain quiet and. hold myA peace,‘，.‘were not righting another bathe for my country. '1 'ov w 7"r v 77 w , , Y .. be wanting to her, as long_ as life shall fast, would be. for other men a disgrace,严Camiiius a downright sin. w by aid. we win7 7 7 w A , ww her bacx, why aid we, when. she was oeset盯toes, deliver her from. their hands, if, now that she is recovered, we desert her? Whilst the Gauls were victorious and the whole of the City in their Dower, the Boas and men of .twme stmt tiela，still dwelt in. the Capitol and the utaael. and now that the Komans are City recovered, are the Citadel and to be am孕。9砰ea叮5nau o叮多coca fortune inflict greater desolation on this City than our evil tortune wrought? Even had there. w w " M 7 '; w 1 Y been，钟religious institutions established when.. the City wasw 7 w r w w w w .; 冬oun少。and pa; w等ea GOW只from nw砰乎CI t色nana }， sA旦1l, so clearly has x'rovidence oeen worxing in the affairs of xome at this tune that Iforone would 〔ox one wou1d suppose that all neglect of divine wor咖ip has been banished from human life. Look at the alternations of Drosmritv and adversity durinz these late years: you will find that all went well with us when we followed the awine guidance, and all was disastrous when we neglected it. Take first of all the war with Veii. For what a number of years and with what immense exertions it was carried on!It did not come to an end before the water was drawn of from the Alban Lake at the bidding of the gods. What, again, o# this unparallolled disaster to our City?D id it burst upon us before the Voice sent from heaven announcing the approach of the Gauls was treated with contempt, before the law of nations had been outraged bar our ambassadors, before we had, in the same irreligious_ spirit, condoned that outrage when we ought to have Dunished it? And so it was that, defeated。captured, ransomed, we received such punishment， ,at the handsw . Y 7 7 } w rtin,“，,gores and men thatw .. we were a lesson to me whole world。Then, in our adversity, r r + we bethought us of our religious duties. We fled to the gods inthe Capitol, to the seat of Jupiter Optimus Maximus; amidsttae ruin of all that we possessed we concealed some of the sacred treasures in the earth, the rest we carried out of the oneby森’瓢to neighbouring cities; abandoned as we wereen, we still did not intermit the divine worship. ecaUSe we acted thus that they have restored to- us our’ native City, axed victory and the renown认war wh irb二，Karl lost;but against the enemy, who, blinded by avarice, broke