cur ut decisa atque avulsa a corpore membra despiciar, nosterque luat cur foedera sanguis? Tandem, ut finitae voces, (miserabile visu) summissi palmas, lacerato tegmine vestis, affigunt proni squalentia corpora terrae.
Why should I be scorned, like a limb cut off and torn from the body? and why should our blood expiate the breach of the treaty? At last, when they ceased to speak, it was pitiful to see them dash their unkempt bodies down upon the floor, with their open hands held up and their garments torn.
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