talia iactabat famaeque pudore futurae, irritus incepti prima si absisteret urbe, audebat cuncta atque acuebat fraudibus enses.
Thus he reproached his men, and, fearing for his fame in time coming if he were to fall back baffled from the first city he attacked, he shrank from no risks and used stratagems to sharpen his assault.
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