est furtim lento misere durantia tabo viscera et exurit siccatas sanguine venas per longum celata fames; iam lumina retro exesis fugere genis, iam lurida sola tecta cute et venis male iuncta trementibus ossa extant, consumptis visu deformia membris.
Famine, long concealed, devoured their much-enduring flesh with slow and secret poison, and burnt up their bloodless veins; by now their eyes sank back from the emaciated cheeks; the bones, a hideous sight when the flesh was gone, stuck out, covered only by the yellow skin and ill-joined by the shaking arteries.
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