Clarae ultionis utraque regina, et Tomyris, quae caput Cyri abscisum in utrem humano sanguine repletum demitti iussit, exprobrans illi insatiabilem cruoris sitim, simulque poenas occisi ab eo filii sui exigens, et Berenice, quae Laodices insidiis interceptum sibi filium graviter ferens armata currum conscendit, persecutaque satellitem regium, crudelis operis ministrum, nomine Caeneum, quem hasta nequiquam petierat, saxo ictum prostravit, ac super eius corpus actis equis inter infesta contrariae partis agmina ad domum in qua interfecti pueri corpus occultari arbitrabatur perrexit.
Two queens are famous for their revenges. Tomyris ordered Cyrus head to be cut off and let down into a bladder full of human gore, thus reproaching him with an insatiable thirst for blood and at the same time taking vengeance for her son whom he had killed. Berenice was aggrieved that her son had been taken from her by the treachery of Laodice. Mounting a chariot with weapons, she pursued a royal attendant named Caeneus who had carried out the cruel work and having missed him with a spear brought him down flat with a stone, then drove her horses over his body and between the hostile ranks of the opposing party to reach the house in which she thought the corpse of the murdered boy was hidden
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