According to Sallust, who had himself once been thrashed in public by the husband of a woman he was horsing around with, the Romans became weak and morally flabby once thismetus hostilisor fear of foreigners had been eradicated.

据塞勒斯特说，在公众面前被重创调戏过的人的丈夫打了罗马变得虚弱，德也再原来，这种对外国人的恐惧已被彻底消除了。