haec memorat, simul ense fodit praecordia et, atrum sustentans vulnus, mananti sanguine signat in clipeo mandata patris: fuge proelia varro; ac summi tegimen suspendit cuspide teli defletumque super prosternit membra parentem.
With these words he drove his sword into his own body; and, when the blood flowed forth from the dark wound, he checked it and wrote his fathers message in letters of blood upon his shield'Varro, beware of battle! Then he hung the shield on the point of his spear, and threw himself down upon the body of the father he so deeply mourned.
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