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，曾经在公众面创调戏过的人的丈夫打了变得虚弱不堪，道德也不再原来，这种对外国人的恐惧已经彻底消除了。