Petrarch thus addresses his friend, who, with shame and tears had shown him the moenia, laceræ specimen miserable Romæ, 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 integræ fuit olim gloria Romæ
Reliquiæ testantur adhuc; quas longior ætas
Frangere non valuit; non vis aut ira cruenti
Hostis, ab egregiis franguntur civibus, heu! heu!
— Quod ille nequivit (Hannibal).
Perficit hic aries. —