Men and women yelled as though they were mad, and the shrill voices of children were also heard above the roaring of the cannon.
At the end of the Corso a net was dropped across the street, into which the frenzied steeds plunged and were flung to the ground, a tangled and bleeding mass of noble horse-flesh.

Some were killed outright and others were so maimed that they had to be dispatched to put them out of misery.

More or less people were always killed at these barbarous races; but for some years the barbrie has been abolished.
While in the ancient city, Paul determined to make a voyage down the Tiber.

He went up the river as far as he could get, to Orte.

The distance from that town to Rome is about one hundred and ninety miles by river.