ille quidem dudum (quis magna tuenti somnus?) agit versans secum, etsi lata recessit urbe domus, quinam strepitus, quae murmura noctis, cur fremibunda quies.
He was long awake to be sure (what sleep for him that has great charge?), asking himself (though our house lay far back from the city) what the noises, what the sounds in the night, why clamourous the quiet.
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