Iamque avidum pugnas visendi vulgus inermes (fama vocat cunctos) arvis ac moenibus adsunt exciti; illi etiam quis belli incognitus horror, quos effeta domi, quos prima reliquerat aetas, conveniunt: non aut Ephyraeo in litore tanta umquam aut Oenomai fremuerunt agmina circo.
You might expect bloody hisses from his dying mouth, so coils the snake about the marble spear. And now comes a multitude eager to see mock battles (Rumour summons them all  ), roused from field and street. Even those who know not the horror of war, whom age exhausted or incipient had left at home,  come flocking.
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