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6Sertorius spared their lives and let them all go, but he burned down their city,[27] not because he was angry or cruel, for he appears to have given way to passion less than any other general, but to put to shame and confusion the admirers of Pompey, in order that it might be said among the Barbarians that though he was near at hand and all but warming himself at the flames of an allied city, he did not come to its relief.
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Notes
[27] Cf. the Pompey, xviii. 3.