<p><term id="embstma_1667_11701"/><persName>CAMILLVS</persName> then, that did repulse the <rs>Gaules</rs>,<lb/> And vnto <rs>Rome</rs> her former state did giue:<lb/> When that her foes made spoile within her waules,<lb/> Lo here, amongst his actes that still shall liue.<lb/> I made my choice, of this example rare,<lb/> That shall for aye his noble minde declare.<lb/> Wherefore, in briefe then this his woorthie parte,<lb/> What time he did besiege <rs>FALERIA</rs> stronge:<lb/> A scoolemaster, that bare a <persName>IVDAS</persName> harte,<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_11702"/>Vnto the place where he was fostred longe,<lb/> Ofte walk'd abrode with schollers that hee toughte,<lb/> Whiche cloke hee vs'de, so that no harme was thoughte.<lb/> At lengthe, with sonnes of all the best, and moste,<lb/> Of noble peares, that kepte the towne by mighte:<lb/> Hee made his walke into the Roman hoste,<lb/> And, when hee came before <persName>CAMILLVS</persName> sighte,<lb/> Quoth hee, my Lorde, lo these? thy prisoners bee,<lb/> Which beinge kepte, <rs>FALERIA</rs> yeeldes to thee.<lb/> Whereat, a while this noble captaine stay'd,<lb/> And pondering well the straungenes of the cause:<lb/> Vnto his frendes, this in effecte he say'd.<lb/> Thoughe warres bee ill, yet good mens warres haue lawes,<lb/> And it behooues a Generall good to gaine<lb/> With valiaunt actes, and not with treacherous traine.<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac113"/> <term id="embstma_1667_11703"/>With that, hee caus'de this *<persName>SINON</persName> to bee stripte,<lb/> And whippes, and roddes, vnto the schollers gaue:<lb/> Whome, backe againe, into the toune they whipte,<lb/> Which facte, once knowne vnto their fathers graue:<lb/> With ioyfull hartes, they yeelded vp their Toune:<lb/> An acte moste rare, and glasse of true renoume.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11701" lang="la"><persName>Furius Camillus</persName>.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11702" lang="la">Verba Camilli apud<lb/> <name type="author">Plutarchum</name>, Xylandro<lb/> interprete.<lb/> Grauis est inquit res<lb/> bellum, vt quae mul-<lb/> tis iniustis multis-<lb/> que violentis factis<lb/> consiciatur. &amp; ta-<lb/> men apud bonos vi-<lb/> ros, habentur etiam<lb/> belli quaedam leges,<lb/> neque tantopere<lb/> victoria expetenda<lb/> est, vt non fugienda<lb/> sint officia quae per<lb/> scelus ac malitiam<lb/> offerutur, magnum<lb/> enim imperatorem<lb/> suae virtutis, non alie-<lb/> nae improbatis fi-<lb/> ducia, conuenit bel-<lb/> lum gerere.</gloss> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac113"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_11703" lang="la"><name type="author">Virgil.</name> lib. 2.<lb/> Aeneid.</gloss> </p>

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Sinon - mentioned in the commentatio - is not the name of the schoolmaster but the traitor who let the Greek soldiers out of the Trojan horse

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When Marcus Furius Camillus laid siege to Falerii its treacherous schoolmaster offered his own pupils as hostages to the romans: Camillus refuses and has him chastised by his pupils: he is stripped and the children drive him back to their city with sticks

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Even war also has its law

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