heu rebus facies inhonora sinistris! non aquilae, non signa viris, non consulis altum imperium, non subnixae lictore secures.
How mean, alas, was the aspect of that beaten army, without eagles, without standards, with no consul in chief command, and no axes borne before him by lictors!
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