Una mora Aeneadae, postquam vox attigit aures, dum daret auspicium iusque in certamina ductor: praevetitum namque et capital, committere Martem sponte viris.
The Roman, when he heard the challenge, only waited till the generals sanction gave him leave to begin; for the soldiers were forbidden, on pain of death, to fight for their own hand.
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