Sic fortuna in contentione et certamine utrumque versavit, ut alter alteri inimicus auxilio salutique esset, neque diiudicari posset, uter utri virtute anteferendus videretur.
Fortune dealt with both these competitors in such a way that one was a help and a security to the other, and one could not decide which of the two was more deserving of being chosen over the other.