Day and night, every place indiscriminately rings with the lamentations of women and children, seized and carried away.

Any one, acquainted with our sufferings, might be astonished how it is that we are capable of bearing them, or that the authors of them are not yet satiated with inflicting such enormous cruelties.

Neither am I able to go through with them, nor is it worth your while to listen to the particulars of our sufferings.

I will embrace them all in a general description.
I declare that there is not a house or a man at Locri exempt from injury.

I say that there cannot be found any species of villany, lust, or rapacity which has not been exercised on every one capable of being the object of them.