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tertia lux gelidam caelo dimoverat umbram:

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The third light [dawn] had flung back the icy shadow from the sky

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maerentes altum cinerem et confusa ruebant ossa focis tepidoque onerabant aggere terrae.

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Sorrowfully they rake the deep ash and they cover the confused bones on the hearth with a warm mound of earth.

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iam vero in tectis, praedivitis urbe Latini, praecipuus fragor et longi pars maxima luctus.

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but already in the house, in the city of wealthy Latinus there is a great noise and the greatest share of prolonged grief.

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hic matres miseraeque nurus, hic cara sororum pectora maerentum puerique parentibus orbi dirum exsecrantur bellum Turnique hymenaeos;

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here mothers and wretched daughters-in-law, here the loving hearts of the sisters grieving and boys deprived of their parents curse the cruel war and the marriage of Turnus

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