Cumque apponerentur exquisitae cuppediae, et aedes amplae nervorum et articulato flatilique sonitu resultarent, iam vino incalescente ipso convivii domino, per simulationem naturalis cuiusdam urgentis egresso, gladium destrictum intentans, torvo lumine ferociens quidam immittitur barbarus asper, ex his quos scurras appellant, confossurus iuvenem, ne exsilire posset etiam tum praepeditum.
And when choice dainties were set before him, and the great building rang with the music of strings, songs, and wind-instruments, the host himself, already heated with wine, went out, under pretence of a call of nature. Then a rude barbarian, fiercely glaring with savage eyes and brandishing a drawn sword, one of the class called scurrae, was sent in to kill the young man, who had already been cut off from any possibility of escape.
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