verum, ubi fata virum fragili solvere senecta, primaevo cessit sceptrum exitiale nepoti, et placida indomitos accepit regia mores.
But when the Fates laid him low with old age and decrepitude, the sceptre passed in a fatal hour to his youthful grandson, and the peaceful palace admitted a prince of unbridled passions.
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