Epic, Lyric, and Elegiac Poems of Andreas Libavius

as it has by rashly accelerating the plunder and living for the moment. One must conquer with powerful virtue, not blind impetuosity. Turning one's back in flight is not the same as conquering the enemy at close quarters. All the remnants must be extirpated. Then strip the camp, and refresh your minds, weary from secure leisure. Do you not know the exits of the Scythians nomads, and their returns in turn? The Arab does not change like this, nor the wild Libyan, nor the wandering Tartar, and the recallable wing of Scythia. When, therefore, peace is now obtained and the enemy removed, with the spoils seized, the city of Iaurinum Győr is entirely the Emperor's. It did not stand for you, fierce Turk, as a small thing to impose a garrison upon the city. Sinan Ottoman Grand Vizier bought it with much gold, not with virtue. Behold, heavy with metal, and Gaza likely referring to a specific treasury or wealth is taken, and the huge faces of the satraps bite the ground around it, having been cut down with many soldiers. That day also loosened the chains of the captives, and brought those enclosed in black darkness out into the clear air, alas, with torn limbs and foully shameful faces, faces and both hands, and legs eaten away by the shackles. For they say that those beaten inhumanly with knotted bronze, and their limbs unploughed by wicker lash, did not fill the city with miserable wails on any day, if only any salvation would finally open itself from the axis of heaven. God did not suffer those crimes; finally, the avenger appeared, and armed fate with the baron of the Black Mountain Nigrimontide Adolph of Schwarzenberg, who taught how much groans and prayers were worth. You might think there is an omen in the name of the hero, Adolph. And a silent fate. Whom the Persian calls Adolph, the Latin calls him Just; but in the usage of the Teutonic tongue, he is a noble helper. Thus, by a just avenger, Iaurinum returned, and a huge salvation appeared to the miserable. Caesar, hail victor, be healthy, and happy, and pious,