Greek Texts & Translations

The people had no idea what the announcement was going to be, but suspecting it from ^note the expression of the envoys' countenances, they immediately burst into a storm of cries and lamentations. . . .

Then all the Senators, ^note uttering a cry of horror, remained as though paralysed by the shock. But ^note the report having quickly spread among the people, the general indignation at once found expression. Some made an attack on the envoys, as the guilty authors of their misfortunes, while others wreaked their wrath upon all Italians caught within the city, and others rushed to the town gates. . . .

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