Tunc vero attoniti fatorum in cardine summo, ceu suprema lues urbi facibusque cruentis aequatura solo turres Bellona subiret, omnibus e tectis certatim ingentia saxa roboraque et gravidas fundae Balearis habenas 'nam iaculis caeloque vagis spes unde sagittis?' verum avidi et tormenta rotant et molibus urguent.
Then indeed aghast at the supreme crisis of their fate, as though final destruction threatened the city and Bellona were come with bloody brand to level her towers with the soil, from every roof they vie with huge stones and stakes and the gravid thong of the Balearic sling (for what hope in javelins and sky-wandering arrows?)'nay, they eagerly whirl catapults and ply him with masses.
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