tandem inter gemitus miserae erupere querelae: sicine te nobis, genitor, Fortuna reducit in patriam? sic te nato natumque parenti impia restituit? felix o terque quaterque frater, cui fatis genitorem agnoscere ademptum! ast ego, Sidoniis imperditus, ecce, parentem vulnere cognosco.
At last the voice of his complaint forced its way through his groans: Is it thus, father, that cruel Fortune brings you back to your country and to us? is it thus she restores father to son and son to father? Thrice and four times happy was my brother, whom death prevented from recognizing his father. But I whom the enemy did not kill'behold! I recognize him by wounding him.
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