We return thanks to your generals and your troops for having trusted their eyes more than their ears; and for having committed nothing hostile, where none subsisted.

The peace, which we observed, the same we solicit at your hands: we pray you, avert war to that quarter where, if any where, it subsists.

What your arms may be able to effect on us, if after our submission we are to experience it, we will experience unarmed.

This is our determination.

May the immortal gods grant that it be as successful as it is dutiful! With respect to the charges, by which you were induced to declare war against us, though it is needless to refute by words what has been contradicted by facts; yet, admitting they were true, we think it safe for us to confess them, after having shown such evident marks of repentance.