Verum in omne discrimen arm at is proximus princeps civitatis urgebat excidium, ne circa muros diu excubans, omitteret maiora quae temptabat.
But in the face of every danger, the emperor, in closest company with combatants, urged on the destruction of the city, lest by lingering too long about its walls, he should be forced to abandon his greater projects.
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