ita dinosci arduum est utrum Romana civitas Decios utilius habuerit duces an amiserit, quoniam vita eorum ne vinceretur obstitit, mors fecit ut vinceret.
Thus it is hard to tell whether the Roman community was more fortunate to have the Decii as generals or to lose them; their lives were a bulwark against defeat, their deaths brought victory.
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