idem delatam ab universo senatu et populo dictaturam recipere non sustinendo pudore culpam maximae cladis redemit, effecitque ut acies deorum irae, modestia ipsius moribus imputaretur.
By his sense of decency in not feeling able to accept the Dictatorship that was offered to him by the entire senate and people he made amends for his culpability in that great disaster, with the result that the battle was ascribed to the anger of the gods, his modesty to his own character.
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