nondum hostes contra, trepido tamen agmine matres conscendunt muros, inde arma nitentia natis et formidandos monstrant sub casside patres.
The enemy does not yet face them, but mothers mount the walls in an anxious throng and thence show their children the shining armour and their fathers, figures of fear under their helms.
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