e perció in mezzo della via l'uccise; né Catone non avea podere di difenderlo
and thus in middle of.the road him.killed and.not Cato not had faculty of defend.him
and thus he killed him in the middle of the road; and Catone did not have the faculty of defending him' (Old Italian, Brunetto Latini Rett. p. 115 l. 9–10)