testor, mea numina, manes dignam me poenae tum nobilitate paternae strage hostis quaesisse necem, ni tristia letum, ut quondam patri, nobis quoque fata negassent.
I swear by the dead, whom I worship, that I sought death then in striking down the foe'a death befitting the famous sufferings of my father; but cruel fate, which denied him a soldiers death, denied it to me also.
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