lucerna adlata, simul adspexit filium sanctamque uxorem dormientem <illum prope>, sopita primo quae nil somno senserat, repraesentavit in se poenam facinoris et ferro incubuit quod credulitas strinxerat.
When a light was brought, he gazed at once upon his son, and, sleeping near him, the innocent wife, who, deep in her first sleep, had heard nothing. Then and there he paid in full his own penalty for the crime by falling on the sword which his too-ready belief had unsheathed.
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