nascenti cui tris animas Feronia mater (horrendum dictu) dederat, terna arma movenda' ter leto sternendus erat; cui tunc tamen omnis abstulit haec animas dextra et totidem exuit armis: non ego nunc dulci amplexu divellerer usquam, nate, tuo, neque finitimo Mezentius umquam huic capiti insultans tot ferro saeva dedisset funera, tam multis viduasset civibus urbem.
whom at his birth his mother Feronia had given (awful to tell!) three lives with threefold armour to wear'three times he had to be laid low in death; yet on that day this hand bereft him of all his lives and as often stripped him of his armour'then never should I now be torn, my son, from your sweet embrace. Never on this his neighbours head would Mezentius have heaped scorn, dealt with the sword so many cruel deaths, nor widowed the city of so many of her sons!
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