stabant innixi pilis exercitus omnis spectabantque viros, et laeta et tristia ferre indociles, nunc propexis in pectora barbis verrere humum, nunc foedantes in pulvere crinem canentem et turpi lacrima precibusque pudendis femineum tenues ululatum fundere in auras.
There stood the Roman soldiers, leaning on their javelins, and gazed at those men, unable to bear either prosperity or adversity, who now swept the ground with beards that covered their breasts, and now defiled their grey hairs in the dust, while, shedding unmanly tears and putting up shameful prayers for mercy, they filled the air with womanish wailings.
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