Audires ululatus feminarum, infantum quiritatus, clamores
You would have heard the wailing of women, the protesting cries of babies, the shouts
virorum; alii parentes alii liberos alii coniuges vocibus requirebant,
of men; some were searching for their parents, others for children, others for spouses;
vocibus noscitabant; hi suum casum, illi suorum miserabantur;
by their voices, they recognized them; these were lamenting their own misfortune; those the misfortune of their family members;
erant qui metu mortis mortem precarentur;
there were those who prayed for death from fear of death;
multi ad deos manus
many raised their hands to the gods
tollere, plures nusquam iam deos ullos aeternamque illam et
more were taking the view that now nowhere were there any gods and that the eternal night
novissimam noctem mundo interpretabantur.
was also the final one for the world.
Nec defuerunt qui
Nor were there lacking those who
fictis mentitisque terroribus vera pericula augerent.
increased the true dangers with invented and untrue terrors.
Aderant qui
There were present those who
Miseni illud ruisse illud ardere falso sed credentibus nuntiabant.
were reporting that at Misenum one part had collapsed and the other was burning, false, but to people believing them.