والمقهورون أيضاً، المستعبدون بفعل الحرب، سيفقدون حريتهم فيفقدون معها كل فضيلة.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.”John Milton — The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems (1873)