Jamque oblita sui, nec sobria divitiis mens
In miseras leges hominumque negoti a ludit:
Judicat eunuchus . . .
Arma etiam violare parat....
Claudian (in Eutrop. i. 229-270), with that mixture of indignation and humour which always pleases in a satiric poet, describes the insolent folly of the eunuch, the disgrace of the empire, and the joy of the Goths.
__Gaudet, cum viderit, hostis,
Et sentit jam deesse viros.