At Paulus, iam non idem nec mente nec ore, sed qualis stratis deleto milite campis post pugnam stetit, ante oculos atque ora futuro obversante malo; ceu iam spe lucis adempta, cum stupet exanimata parens natique tepentes nequiquam fovet extremis amplexibus artus:
Meanwhile Paulus underwent a change: he felt and looked now as when he stood after the battle and the field lay before him strewn with Roman corpses; for the imminent disaster pressed upon his very sight. So sits a mother stunned and senseless, when all hope of her sons life is lost, and she cherishes with a last fruitless embrace the limbs that are not yet cold.
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