Atque ea dum miles miratur inertia facta expectatque ferox sternendi moenia signum, ecce repens tacito percurrit pectora sensu religio et saevas componit numine mentes, ne flammam taedasque velint, ne templa sub uno in cinerem traxisse rogo.
While the soldiers looked with wonder at such weakness, and waited eagerly for the command to raze the walls, a sudden awe, felt but not expressed, came over them, and some divine power tamed their ferocity, making them loath to hurl their fire-brands and reduce all the temples of Capua to ashes in a single conflagration.
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