arcanis dea laeta polo tum forte remoto caelicolum magnas volvebat conscia curas; quam tali alloquitur Nemeae pacator honore:  ante Iovem generata, decus divumque hominumque, qua sine non tellus pacem, non aequora norunt, iustitiae consors tacitumque in pectore numen, exitiumne tuae dirum spectare Sagunti et tot pendentem pro te, dea, cernere poenas urbem lenta potes? moritur tibi vulgus, et unam te matres, vincente fame, te maesta virorum ora vocant, primaque sonant te voce minores.
It chanced that the goddess, who loves solitude, was then in a distant region of heaven, pondering in her heart the high concerns of the gods. Then he who gave peace to Nemeab accosted her thus with reverence: Goddess more ancient than Jupiter, glory of gods and men, without whom neither sea nor land finds peace, sister of Justice, silent divinity in the heart of man, canst thou look on unmoved at the awful doom of thine own Saguntum, and watch the city while it suffers so many penalties in thy defence? For thy sake the people die; the matrons, conquered by famine, call on thee alone; the pitiful cries of the men invoke thee; thy name is heard in the first utterance of their little ones.
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