Qua tempestate rei publicae L. quoque Cornelius Merula, consularis et flamen Dialis, ne ludibrio insolentissimis victoribus esset, in Iovis sacrario venis incisis contumeliosae mortis denuntiationem effugit, sacerdotisque sui sanguine vetustissimi foci maduerunt.
In that stormy time of the commonwealth L. Cornelius Merula too, Consular and Flamen of Jupiter, not wishing to expose himself to the mockery of the insolent victors, severed his veins in Jupiters sanctuary, thus escaping the injunction of a contumelious death. The ancient hearth was soaked in the blood of its priest.
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