Interea, dum incerta labat sententia clausis, exciti populi atque urbes socia arma ferebant: incumbens Messana freto minimumque revulsa discreta Italia atque Osco memorabilis ortu; tum Catane, nimium ardenti vicina Typhoeo et generasse pios quondam celeberrima fratres, et, cui non licitum fatis, Camarina, moveri.
Meantime, while the besieged Syracusans were divided in their minds, Marcellus summoned forth the peoples and cities; and they brought their forces to aid him. Such were'Messana, famous for its Oscan founders,d a coast-town that lies nearest to Italy of all Sicilian towns; and Catana, too close to the fire of Typhoeus, and famous for the pair of dutiful sonse whom she bore long ago; and Camarina, which the Fates would not suffer to be moved;
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