qualiter ex alta cum Iuppiter arce coruscat, Pliadas ille movens mixtumque sonoribus imbrem horriferamve nivem, canis ubi tollitur omnis campus aquis, aut sanguinei magna ostia belli aut alios duris fatorum gentibus ortus: sic tum diversis hinc atque hinc motibus anceps pectora dux crebro gemitu quatit, optat et almum iam iubar et certi tandem discriminis horas.
Even as when Jupiter darts lightning from his high citadel, ay, when he stirs the Pleiads and mingled rain and thunder or freezing snow, when the whole plain is hidden by the white downpour, or when he opens the wide gates of bloody war, or brings other beginnings of destiny to stubborn nations: even so then did the leader halt between divers impulses from this quarter and from that, and rack his heart with many a groan, and wish that the kindly dawn were already come and the hours that bring sure decision at the last.
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