But [the Arabs’] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.
![But [the Arabs’] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: Image](https://www.idlehearts.com/images/but-the-arabs-friendship-was-venal-their-faith-inconstant-their-enmity-capricious.jpg?x85372 "But [the Arabs’] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious:")
