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multa boum circa mactantur corpora Morti,
saetigerosque sues raptasque ex omnibus agris
in flammam iugulant pecudes.

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Around about, many bodies of oxen are sacrificed to death, and they slaughter on the flames hairy pigs and cattle taken from all the fields.

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tum litore toto ardentis spectant socios semustaque servant busta,

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Then thy watch their burnind comrades on the whole shore and they guard the half-burned pyre

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neque avelli possunt, nox umida donec invertit caelum stellis ardentibus aptum.

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nor can they be torn away until damp night reveals a sky studded with shining stars.

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Nec minus et miseri diversa in parte Latini innumeras struxere pyras,

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Nonetheless the wretched Latins in other places built innumerable pyres

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et corpora partim multa virum terrae infodiunt, avectaque partim finitimos tollunt in agros urbique remittunt.

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they buried half of the many bodies of men in the earth, half were taken and brought into the neighbouring fields and sent back to the city.

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cetera confusaeque ingentem caedis acervum nec numero nec honore cremant;

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The rest, a vast pile of indiscriminate slaughter they burn without count and with honour.

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tunc undique vasti certatim crebris conlucent ignibus agri.

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Then the vast fields on every side gleam with frequent fires in emulation

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