His per praecones pronuntiatis, nemo tamen armatus opem a dis petere sustinuit; pueri virginesque templa compleverant, viri in vestibulo suarum quisque aedium stabant, parata saevientibus turba.
Although this order was proclaimed by heralds, yet not a single armed man could bring himself to seek aid from the gods; boys and maidens had filled the temples, the men stood each in the vestibule of his own house, a throng at the mercy of the raging foe.
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