calamities to enter
into themselves
on whom the terrors
of the divine judgment
make very little impression
transient glances
do not lead to
a change of heart
sickness daily
produces
live on in former
lukewarmness
and disorders
upon the appearance
of an unusual meteor
a rumor that the city
would be destroyed by fire
from heaven
the inhabitants
were seized
with a panic fear
all began to do penance
and fled
with the emperor
at their head
to a great distance
from the city
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*this poem is written using found text while researching Barbatus
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