quibus allatis ultima senectute confectum et paene dilapsum corpus induit, spiculoque innixus ante fores curiae constitit, <ictuque saxi vulneratus est,> ac parvulis extremi spiritus reliquiis ne res publica exspiraret effecit: praesentia enim animi sui senatum et equestrem ordinem ad vindictam exigendam impulit.
When they arrived, he put them upon his body, exhausted and almost fallen apart as it was through extreme old age, and leaning on a spear took his stand before the doors of the senate house and was wounded by the blow of a stone. Thus by the scanty remnants of his final breath he saved the commonwealth from breathing its last. For by his ready courage he impelled the senate and the equestrian order to exact retribution.
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