Hatred is in our hearts; yet let piety be there also, which in its due time may take the place of rigour.

For the rights of nature reconcile us, though we are parted by differences of purpose; they link us together, howsoever rancour estrange our spirit.

Let us, therefore, have this pious stipulation, that the conqueror shall give funeral rites to the conquered.

For all allow that these are the last duties of human kind, from which no righteous man shrinks.

Let each army lay aside its sternness and perform this function in harmony.