singularem fati sortem, qua accidit ut columen urbis in ipsa urbe raptum ne supremo quidem funeris honore a civibus decorari posset, caelesti flamma in eam condicione< m> redactum ut eosdem penates et regiam et rogum et sepulcrum haberet! Vix veri simile est in eripiendo spiritu idem gaudium potuisse quod fulmen, et tamen idem valuit.
A singular fatal lot, through which the citys crown, snatched away in the city itself, could not be glorified by the citizens with the final honour of a funeral and was reduced by celestial fire to a condition such that his household gods, his palace, his pyre, and his sepulchre were all one and the same. It is scarcely plausible that joy had the same effect as a thunderbolt in snatching away life, and yet it was equally potent.
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