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"But these are not the only respects in which they are vastly inferior to us: there is also the fact that they can not bear up under hunger, thirst, cold, or heat, as we can. 

They require shade and covering, they require kneaded bread and wine and oil, and if any of these things fails them, they perish; for us, on the other hand, any grass or root serves as bread, the juice of any plant as oil, any water as wine, any tree as a house. 

Furthermore, this region is familiar to us and is our ally, but to them it is unknown and hostile. As for the rivers, we can swim them naked, whereas they do not cross them easily, even with boats. Let us, therefore, go against them trusting boldly to good fortune. Let us show them, that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves.'"

"But now," she said, "it is not as a woman descended from noble ancestry, but as one of the people that I am avenging lost freedom, my scourged body, the outraged chastity of my daughters. Roman lust has gone so far that not our very persons, nor even age or virginity, are left unpolluted. But heaven is on the side of a righteous vengeance; a legion which dared to fight has perished; the rest are hiding themselves in their camp, or are thinking anxiously of flight. They will not sustain even the din and the shout of so many thousands, much less our charge and our blows. If you weigh well the strength of the armies, and the causes of the war, you will see that in this battle you must conquer or die. This is a woman's resolve; as for men, they may live and be slaves."