Attoniti amici, ne positis quidem, sed abiectis poculis, consurgunt in eventum rei quam tanto impetu acturus esset  intenti.
His friends, in a panic, having not even put down their cups but thrown them aside, arose in a body, their thoughts centred upon the result of the act which he was about  to commit with such impetuosity.
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