name modo scaenae moenium publicorum crebris terrae motibus concutiebantur; nunc ignes saepe flammati caducas culminum cristas superiecto favillarum monte tumulabant; nunc stupenda foro cubilia collocabat audacium pavenda mansuetudo cervorum: cum tu inter ista discessu primorum populariumque statu urbis exinanito ad nova celer veterum Ninivitarum exempla decurristi, ne divinae admonitioni tua quoque desperatio conviciaretur.
At one time the public buildings would be shaken by a series of earthquakes; at another fires would be repeatedly kindled and bury falling roof-tops under an incumbent mountain of ashes; again, numbers of deer alarmingly bold in their tameness would spread consternation by making their lairs in the very market-place. When amid these terrors the city-strength was being depleted by the flight of citizens both high and low, you promptly resorted to a new version of the historic procedure at Nineveh, that you at least might not bring reproach on the divine warning by giving way to despair.
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