Ille trahens gemitum tantis ac vocibus impar, quamquam iura deum et sacri sibi conscia pacti religio dulcisque movent primordia taedae, cunctatur Martemque cupit sociamque pericli cogitat.
He, groaning deeply and overborne by cries so importunate, though law divine and the binding sanctity of the holy vow and the first sweet beginnings of wedlock urge him on, yet tarries and would fain fight, and bethinks him of her who shares his peril.
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