Namque, cum Antiochiae in alto silentio, scaenicis ludis mimus cum uxore immissus, e medio sumpta quaedam imitaretur, populo venustate attonito, coniunx Nisi somnus est inquit en Persae, et retortis plebs universa cervicibus, ex arce volantia in se tela declinans, spargitur passim.
For once upon a time at Antioch, amid deep silence, an actor of mimes, who with his wife had been presented in stage-plays, was presenting some scenes from everyday life. And while all the people were amazed at the charm of the performance, the wife suddenly cried: Is it a dream, or are the Persians here? Whereupon all the people turned their heads about and then fled in all directions, to avoid the arrows that were showered upon them from the citadel.
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