solvitur interea vallum, primaeque recusant stare morae; iam se peditum iunxere catervae moenibus: at patulas saltu transmittere fossas horror equis: haerent trepidi atque immane paventes abruptum mirantur agi; nunc impetus ire margine ab extremo, nunc sponte in frena recedunt.
Meanwhile the rampart is breached and the first defenders lack the will to stand. Troops of foot are at the walls, but the horses shrink from leaping the broad ditches; they halt trembling and fearing the vast chasm they wonder that they are driven forward.  Now they make to plunge from the edge, now of their own accord they recoil upon the reins.
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