Scipio "did not consider that republic flourishing whose walls stand, but whose morals are in ruins."

"Neque enim censebat ille felicem esse rem publicam stantibus moenibus, ruentibus moribus."

     St. Augustine, City of God I.33, trans. Dodds.  CSEL 40.1, p. 56 ll. 13-14.  Scipio did not consider that republic happy with standing walls, ruined morals.