ut cum possessas avidis victoribus arces dux raptare dedit, vix signa audita, nec urbem invenias; ducunt sternuntque abiguntque feruntque immodici, minor ille fragor quo bella gerebant.
As when a commander gives a captured town over to greedy victors to plunder, scarce is the signal heard and the city is gone; unrestrained they drag and flatten, drive off, carry off; with less noise they made war.
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