Quippe oppidana lascivia in vicem incessentes probra, dein saxa, postremo ferrum sumpsere, validiore Pompeianorum plebe, apud quos spectaculum edebatur.
During a verbal battle, common in the irritability of small towns, they turned to insults, then to rocks, and ultimately to swords; with the advantage on the side of the people of Pompeii, where the spectacle was taking place.