[Footnote 42: After enumerating the sufferings of his
country, Nicholas Specialis adds, in the true spirit of
Italian jealousy, Quae omnia et graviora quidem, ut
arbitror, patienti animo Siculi tolerassent, nisi (quod
primum cunctis dominantibus cavendum est) alienas foeminas
invasissent, (l. i. c. 2, p. 924.)]