tunc Nabuchodonosor rex obstipuit et surrexit propere et ait optimatibus suis nonne tres viros misimus in medio ignis conpeditos qui respondentes dixerunt regi vere rex
Then Nabuchodonosor, the king, was astonished, and rose up in haste, and said to his nobles: Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, and said: True, O king.