,11. Now-whether it was that the Gauls were not all animated by a passion for the destruction of the City, or whether their chiefs had decided on the one hand to present the spectacle of a few fires as a :means of intimidating the besieged into surrender from. a desire to save their homes, and on the other, by abstaininz from a universal conflagration, hold what re- J马沪 r mained of the City as a pledge by which to weaken their enemies determination-certain it is that the fires were far from b elng so indiscriminate or so extensive as might be expected on the first day of a captured city. As the Romans beheld froze. the Citadel the City filled with the enemy who were running about in all the streets, while some new disaster was constantly occurrinz. first in one auarter then in another, they could no loner 只,，‘，。丹，，‘，.、.r，r，，，，，·v control tnezr eyes ana ears, let atone tneir tnougnts ana ieelmgs. In whatever direction their attention was drawn by the shouts of the enemy, the shrieks of the women and boys, the roar ofthe flames, and the crash of houses falling in, thither they turned their eyes and minds as though set by Fortune to be spectators of their country's fall, powerless to protect anything left of all they possessed beyond their lives.妙ove all o色ers吵o have ever stood. a siege were。 they to be pared, cu仁哄as they。 were trom the land of their birth and seeing all that bad. been 'theirs in少“possession of the enemy. The day which had been spent in such misery was succeeded whit more restful again by a, day of l朔low_in flame and ruin, theyN 7呷not for“仰ment relax their determination to defend by tnexr coura罗zne on( spot still left to freedom., the hill which they held, however small and poor it might be. At len day by day, they became as it were端ed to misery, andturned their thoughts from. the circumstances round them totheir arms and the sword in their right hand, which they gazed