discissisque viculis quos in vicinia urbis invenit, advexit illo plurimam congeriem trabium, tignorum, parietum, virgeorum, et tecti fenei, et his urbem in magna altitudine circumdedit, a parte quae terrae est contigua: et dum ventum opportunum cerneret, inlato igne comburere urbem nisus est.
and pulling in pieces the hamlets which he found in the neighbourhood of the city, carried thither a very great quantity of beams, rafters, partitions, wattles and thatch, and therewith he compassed the city on the side that adjoineth to the land, in a great height: and when he saw the wind to serve, he kindled the fire and sought to consume the city.
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