[Footnote 48: Petrarch thus addresses his friend, who, with
shame and tears had shown him the moenia, lacerae specimen
miserable Romae, and declared his own intention of restoring
them, (Carmina Latina, l. ii. epist. Paulo Annibalensi,
xii. p. 97, 98.)
Nec te parva manet servatis fama ruinis Quanta quod integrae
fuit olim gloria Romae Reliquiae testantur adhuc; quas
longior aetas Frangere non valuit; non vis aut ira cruenti
Hostis, ab egregiis franguntur civibus, heu! heu' - Quod
ille nequivit (Hannibal.) Perficit hic aries.]