Nec mora tum trepidos hac clade irrumpere muros signaque ferre deum templis iam iamque fuisset, ni subito importuna lues inimicaque pestis, invidia divum pelagique labore parata, polluto miseris rapuisset gaudia caelo.
The citizens were terrified by this defeat, and Marcellus would have been able at once to burst through the walls and lead his eagles against the temples of the gods, had not a sore pestilence and cruel plague, caused by the ill-will of heaven and the fight at sea,b suddenly infected the air and robbed the wretched Romans of this triumph.
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