But in fact, in case of the destruction of this army, all these are betrayed, not preserved.

For who will protect them?
An unwarlike and unarmed multitude, shall I suppose?
Yes, just as they defended them against the attack of the Gauls.

Will they call to their succour an army from Veii, with Camillus at its head?
Here on the spot, I repeat, are all our hopes and strength; by preserving which, we preserve our country; by delivering them up to death, we abandon and betray our country.

But a surrender is shameful and ignominious.

True: but such ought to be our affection for our country, that we should save it by our own disgrace, if necessity required, as freely as by our death.