His tectis opibusque potitus Ausonius ductor, postquam sublimis ab alto aggere despexit trepidam clangoribus urbem, inque suo positum nutu, stent moenia regum, an nullos oriens videat lux crastina muros, ingemuit nimio iuris tantumque licere horruit et, propere revocata militis ira, iussit stare domos, indulgens templa vetustis incolere atque habitare deis.
Such was the city and such the wealth, of which the Roman general was now master. He stood on a lofty eminence and looked down on the city where the noise of the trumpets spread terror. A sign from him would determine whether those royal walls should remain standing or vanish utterly before the morrow dawned. He groaned aloud because of his excess of power, and shrank back from what he might have done. Quickly restraining the violence of the soldiers, he ordered that the houses should be left standing, and granted their temples to the gods to inhabit as of old.
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