iacebat ipse in lectulo moribundo similis, lamentabantur necessarii, pater maerore prostratus de obitu unici filii deque sua miserrima orbitate cogitabat, totius domus funebris magis quam regius erat vultus.
He lay in bed like a dying man, his friends and relations were lamenting, his father, prostrate with grief, thought of the death of his only son and his own pitiable bereavement. The aspect of the whole household was more funereal than royal.
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