talis erat vulgi status, et sic urbe relicta primaevique senesque et longo examine matres inuidiam planxere deis miseroque tumultu bina per ingentes stipabant funera portas.
Such was the peoples state, so did young and old and mothers in lengthy swarm leave the city and wail reproach  to the gods in piteous tumult as they thronged twin burials at the great gates.
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