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Provide the most idiomatic English translation that preserves the Latin tense/mood and emphasis of ‘me cum omnibus, omnia mecum perire misero…credidissem’?
Stimulus: Possem gloriari non gemitum mihi, non vocem parum fortem in tantis periculis excidisse, nisi me cum omnibus, omnia mecum perire misero, magno tamen mortalitatis solacio credidissem.
Sourcing: Pliny the Younger, Letter 6.20.19
Possem gloriari non gemitum mihi, non vocem parum fortem in tantis periculis excidisse, nisi me cum omnibus, omnia mecum perire misero, magno tamen mortalitatis solacio credidissem.
I had believed that I, poor wretch, was perishing with everyone, and that everything was perishing with me
I believed that all things were perishing with everyone, and I wretchedly with them
I believed that everyone was dying with me, and I with everything, wretchedly
I thought that I was dying miserably with all people and all things together
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