stetit, illacrimante senatu et matrum turba iuvenumque dolore profuso, inter tot gemitus immobilis; aggere consul tendebat dextram et patria vestigia primus ponentem terra occursu celebrabat amico.
He stood there unmoved, while the senators shed tears, and the crowd of matrons and the young men wept for sorrow. On the river bank the consul first held out his hand, in friendly welcome to the exile as he set foot upon his native soil.
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