Hocque exinde veri simile visum est, quod postea intuta loca carieque nutantia, cum exultatione maligna, velut regentibus penetralium callidis, contemplabiliter machinae feriebant hostiles.
And in the end there seemed to be ground for this, since after his visit the enemys engines deliberately battered those places which were tottering and insecure from decay, and that too with spiteful exultation, as if those who directed them were acquainted with conditions within.
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