proxima lux placet: hinc strictos ferre ocius enses, dum fervet cruor, et perfusae caede cohortes, destinat, ac iam claustra manu, iam moenia flamma occupat et iungit Tarpeia incendia Cannis.
Resolved to march on the morrow, he intended to hasten thence with swords still drawn, while the soldiers blood was hot and their hands stained with carnage; and already he sees the barriers broken and the walls on fire, and makes the burning of the Capitol follow close on Cannae.
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