me fulmine in ipso audivere patres; ego iuxta busta profusis matribus at<que> piis cecini solacia natis, et mihi, cum proprios gemerem defectus ad ignes quem, Natura, patrem! nec te lugere severus arceo; sed confer gemitus pariterque fleamus.
Fathers have listened to me in the very shock, I have sung solace to mothers prostrate by the pyre and loving children'and to myself, when at fires of my own I lamented fainting (O Nature!) what a father! I do not tell you sternly not to mourn; but mingle your groans and let us weep together.
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