crimen enim, piget heu, crimen persuaserat atrox Iuppiter, ut sacro iustorum sanguine tincta adsuetum bellis scelerarem funere ferrum.
For it was to sin (alas, to my sorrow now!), it was to sin that savage Jupiter led me on, to stain my hands with the holy blood of the righteous and defile with the guilt of their death the sword that had its proper use in war.
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