quae cum aediliciis comitiis Pompeii Magni coniugis sui vestem cruore respersam e campo domum relatam vidisset, territa metu ne qua ei vis esset allata, exanimis concidit, partumque, quem utero conceptum habebat, subita animi consternatione et gravi dolore corporis eicere coacta est, magno quidem cum totius terrarum orbis detrimento, cuius tranquillitas tot civilium bellorum truculentissimo furore perturbata non esset si Caesaris et Pompeii concordia communis sanguinis vinculo constricta mansisset.
At the aedilician elections she saw a piece of clothing belonging to her husband Pompeius Magnus which had been brought home from the Campus stained with blood. Terrified that some violence had been done to him, she collapsed unconscious and the sudden shock and severe bodily pain caused the child she had in her womb to miscarry, to the great misfortune of the whole world. For its tranquillity would not have been disrupted by the savage madness of so many civil wars if concord between Caesar and Pompey had held, bound by a tie of common blood.
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