eo praedicto magnopere confusus, quod et longa et periculosa navigatio imperabatur, spe tamen dubia praesentem metum vincente pueros ad ripam Tiberis protinus detulit'habitabat enim in villa sua propter vicum Sabinae regionis Eretum', ac lintre Ostiam petens nocte concubia ad Martium campum appulit, sitientibusque aegris succurrere cupiens, igne in navigio non suppetente ex gubernatore cognovit haud procul apparere fumum, et ab eo iussus egredi Tarentum'id nomen ei loco est', cupide arrepto calice, aquam flumine haustam eo unde fumus erat obortus iam laetior pertulit, divinitus dati remedii quasi vestigia quaedam in propinquo nanctum se existimans, inque solo magis fumante quam ullas ignis habente reliquias, dum tenacius omen apprehendit, contractis levibus et quae fors obtulerat nutrimentis pertinaci spiritu flammam evocavit, calefactamque aquam pueris bibendam dedit.
He was much perplexed by this prediction, for the voyage prescribed was long and dangerous. However, dubious hope overcoming present fear, he brought the children straightway to Tiber bank (he lived on his farm near a village in the Sabine district called Eretum) and made for Ostia in a boat. In the dead of night he put in at the Field of Mars. The sick children were thirsty, and wishing to succour them, since there was no fire on board, he learned from the skipper that smoke could be seen not far away. The same told him to get out at Tarentum, so the place was called. Eagerly he snatched up a cup and carried water drawn from the river to the place where the smoke had risen, more cheerful now because he thought he had come upon some traces as it were of a divinely offered remedy close at hand. The ground was smoking rather than bearing any remains of fire, so firmly seizing on the omen, he gathered some light fuel as chance supplied it, and blowing on it persistently, elicited a flame, heated the water, and gave it to the children to drink.
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