tum, qui partitis dissederat ante maniplis: sancte, ait, o genitor, revocato ad lucis honorem si fas vera queri, cur nobis castra virosque dividere est licitum? patiens cur arma dedisti, quae solus rexisse vales? hoc munere lapsi aeternas multo cum sanguine vidimus umbras.
Then the general who had lately parted from him, taking half the army with him, spoke thus: O worshipful father, if I, thus restored to the blessing of light, may make a just complaint, why were we permitted to have separate camps and separate armies? Why did you submit to hand over a force which you alone are fit to command? To that generous act we owed our fall and looked on the darkness of death, and much blood was spilt.
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