ductores facilem impelli laetamque tumultus vaniloquo plebem furiabant insuper ore: numquam hoste intratos muros et quattuor arces; et Salaminiacis quantam Eoisque tropaeis ingenio portus urbs invia fecerit umbram, spectatum proavis: ter centum ante ora triremes unum naufragium, mersasque impune profundo clade pharetrigeri subnixas regis Athenas.
The boastful speeches of the leaders roused to hotter rage a people easily swayed and fond of disturbance: Never, said they, has an enemy set foot within the walls of Syracuse and her four fortressesd; our ancestors saw how the city, made impregnable by the nature of her harbour, eclipsed the laurels that Salamis won from the Eastern kinge; three hundred triremes sank in one common shipwreck before their eyes; and Athens, proud as she was to have defeated the bow-bearing king, sank down unavenged to destruction in the sea.
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