magna haec prodigia, sed et illae clades aliquanto maiores, tot pulcherrimarum legionum interitus, tam multa signa hostilibus intercepta manibus, tantum Romanae militiae decus barbarorum obtritum equitatu, optimae indolis filii cruore paterni respersi oculi, corpus imperatoris inter promiscuas cadaverum strues avium ferarumque laniatibus obiectum.
These were great prodigies, but the ensuing disasters were considerably greater: the destruction of so many fine legions, the capture of so many standards by enemy hands, the flower of Roman soldiery trampled under barbarian horse, a fathers eyes bespattered with the blood of a highly gifted son, the body of a commander-in-chief exposed to the rendings of birds and wild beasts among promiscuous heaps of corpses.
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