at, non obsaepto contentus limine Martem exercere, levis bello sed turbidus ausi, Virrius incauto fervore eruperat amens reclusa in campum porta miseramque furori vincentum obtulerat pubem.
But Virrius,a hotheaded but of little account in battle, was not content to fight within the confinement of the walls: in his headstrong folly he opened a gate, sallied out into the plain, and exposed his hapless followers to the rage of the victorious Romans.
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