Vix ea legati, variusque per ora cucurrit Ausonidum turbata fremor, ceu saxa morantur cum rapidos amnis, fit clauso gurgite murmur vicinaeque fremunt ripae crepitantibus undis.
Scarcely had the envoys spoken thus when a various murmur ran along the troubled lips of Ausonias sons: just as, when rocks delay a rushing river, there rises a roar from the pent-up flood, and the neighbouring banks echo to the plashing waters.