Quae cernens ductor, postquam immedicabile visa seditio, atque ultro bellum surgebat ab hoste, testatus divos Siculorum amnesque lacusque et fontes, Arethusa, tuos, ad bella vocari invitum; quae sponte diu non sumpserit, hostem induere arma sibi: telorum turbine vasto aggreditur muros atque armis intonat urbi.
Marcellus saw all this; and, now that the rebellion seemed a thing past mending and the enemy were beginning war unprovoked, he called the gods of Sicily to witness, with the rivers and lakes and Arethusas spring, that he was challenged to war against his will, and forced by the enemy to don those arms that he had long refused to put on. Then he assailed the walls with a tornado of missiles and thundered in arms against the city.
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