Sed cum in obsidione perseverasset, oppidani, desperata salute, ignem subiecere tectis seque ac  liberos coniugesque incendio cremant.
But when he had persisted in besieging it, the inhabitants, despairing of safety, set fire to their houses and burned to death in the flames themselves and their  wives and their children.
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