At facie subita volitantum montibus altis flammarum, quis tunc cecidit custodia sorti, horrere atque ipsos, nullo spargente, vagari credere et indomitos pasci sub collibus ignes.
But the Roman sentries whose turn it was to be on guard were horror-struck by the sudden sight of flames moving about on the mountain-tops: they believed that no hand of man had sent forth fire, but that it spread of itself and flourished unrestrained beneath the hills.
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