nec pugna perempto ulterior ductore fuit; namque agmine denso primores iuvenum, laeva ob discrimina Martis infensi superis dextrisque et cernere Poenum victorem plus morte rati, super ocius omnes membra ducis stratosque artus certamine magno telaque corporaque et non fausto Marte cruentas iniecere manus.
When the leader was slain, the fighting ceased. For the foremost soldiers closed their ranks; and then, enraged against Heaven and themselves for their defeat, and thinking it worse than death to see the Carthaginians conquer, they hastened eagerly to pile over the body of Flaminius and his prostrate limbs their weapons, their bodies, and their hands red with the blood of defeat.
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