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multa boum circa mactantur corpora Morti,
saetigerosque sues raptasque ex omnibus agris
in flammam iugulant pecudes.
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.
tum litore toto ardentis spectant socios semustaque servant busta,
Then thy watch their burnind comrades on the whole shore and they guard the half-burned pyre
neque avelli possunt, nox umida donec invertit caelum stellis ardentibus aptum.
nor can they be torn away until damp night reveals a sky studded with shining stars.
Nec minus et miseri diversa in parte Latini innumeras struxere pyras,
Nonetheless the wretched Latins in other places built innumerable pyres
et corpora partim multa virum terrae infodiunt, avectaque partim finitimos tollunt in agros urbique remittunt.
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.
cetera confusaeque ingentem caedis acervum nec numero nec honore cremant;
The rest, a vast pile of indiscriminate slaughter they burn without count and with honour.
tunc undique vasti certatim crebris conlucent ignibus agri.
Then the vast fields on every side gleam with frequent fires in emulation