cum enim iam acervatim cecidissent super alterutrum mortui interstetit et amputavit impetum et divisit illam quae ad vivos ducebat viam

For when the corpses were already piled up in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath and cut off its way to the living.

For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.

Dead bodies were already lying in piles, but he stepped in to hold your anger back and to keep it from harming those who were left alive.

For when dead men fell down by heaps, each on (the) other, he stood betwixt dead men and living, or the dead and the quick (or the dead and the living), and cut away the fierceness of burning, and parted that way, that led to quick (or living) men. [When forsooth now heap-meal they had fallen dead, either upon other, he stood between, and cut away the force, and divided that way, that to the men alive led.]

For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.

For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the assault and cut off its way to the living.

For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.

The dead already lay fallen one upon another in heaps when he stood between the punisher and the people and stopped the assault. He cut off the punisher’s access to the living.

For when corpses had already fallen one on another in heaps, he stood in the midst and checked the anger, and cut off its way to the living.

For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.

For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he intervened and held back the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.