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tertia lux gelidam caelo dimoverat umbram:
The third light [dawn] had flung back the icy shadow from the sky
maerentes altum cinerem et confusa ruebant ossa focis tepidoque onerabant aggere terrae.
Sorrowfully they rake the deep ash and they cover the confused bones on the hearth with a warm mound of earth.
iam vero in tectis, praedivitis urbe Latini, praecipuus fragor et longi pars maxima luctus.
but already in the house, in the city of wealthy Latinus there is a great noise and the greatest share of prolonged grief.
hic matres miseraeque nurus, hic cara sororum pectora maerentum puerique parentibus orbi dirum exsecrantur bellum Turnique hymenaeos;
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