For the enemy, leaving the chest quiet at length though much exhausted, had made itself felt with full power again in a painful vomiting, which seemed to shake his body asunder, with great consequent prostration.

From that time the distress increased rapidly downwards.

Omnia tum vero vitai claustra lababant;+ and soon the cold was mounting with sure pace from the dead feet to the head.
And now Marius began more than to suspect what the issue must be, and henceforward could but watch with a sort of agonised fascination the rapid but systematic work of the destroyer, [117] faintly relieving a little the mere accidents of the sharper forms of suffering.

Flavian himself appeared, in full consciousness at last--in clear-sighted, deliberate estimate of the actual crisis--to be doing battle with his adversary.

His mind surveyed, with great distinctness, the various suggested modes of relief.