vix primo proferre gradum et munimina valli solvere, vix totas reserare audacia portas; stant veteres ante ora metus campique vacantis horror: ut assiduo iactatis aequore tellus prima labat, sic attoniti nil comminus ire mirantur fusasque putant assurgere turmas.
Scarce at first have they daring to step forward and dismantle the barriers of the rampart, scarce wholly to unbar the gates. Before their eyes stand their old fears and the horror of the empty plain. As for men long tossed upon the sea the earth heaves at first, so in shock they wonder that nothing opposes them and imagine that the routed squadrons are rising against them.
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