viderat, obscura vallum dum nocte pererrat aeger consilii curisque novissima volvens, coniugis Argiae laceram cum lampade maesta effigiem (sunt monstra deum: sic ire parabat, has latura viro taedas erat): ergo roganti quae via quisve dolor, cur maesta insignia, tantum fleverat atque manu tacitos averterat ignes.
Wandering along the rampart in the dark of night, unhappy of counsel, anxious, meditating the worst, he had seen the image of his wife Argia, her person torn and carrying a mournful torch (signs there are from the gods; thus she was about to walk, these the torches she would bring her husband). So when he asks where she was going and what her distress, why the woeful emblems, she only wept and silently turned aside the flame.
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