οἰκτίστῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι → it was fated that you would be taken by the most miserable death, it has been decreed that thou shouldst be cut off by a most piteous death
vĕrĭcŭlum: (not vĕrŭcŭlum), i, n.
dim. veru; cf. corniculum, from cornu,
I a small javelin, Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 107; 35, 11, 41, § 149; Veg. Mil. 2, 15.