parendi tamen et cuicumque incumbere iusso durabat vigor, ac, sensim diffusus ad oras, signa reportandi crescebat in agmine fervor.
Yet they had not lost the power to obey and to carry out every order they received; and the desire to carry the standards back to Rome grew stronger in the ranks and spread by degrees to the outside of the circle.
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