Orberg (from Livy) is describing the unusual mood of the Albani when their city is occupied by the Romans. I’t seems that down to flammaeque miscet, the description is of what one would normally expect in a captured city. But ‘sed silentium…’ is what’s different about the Albani city. I’m sure that at best my translation is inelegant. But is it accurate?
Quae ubi intravere portas, non quidem fuit tumultus ille nec pavor qualis captarum esse urbium solet, cum — effractis portis stratisve muris aut arce vi capta — clamor hostilis et cursus per urbem armatorum omnia ferro flammaque miscet, sed silentium triste ac tacita maestitia ita defixit omnium animos ut nunc cunctantes in liminibus starent, nunc per domos suas, quas tum postremum viderunt, vagarentur.
[The legions] when they entered the gates, there was not that outcry nor the sort of fear usual for a captured city, when - by broken gates and scattered walls or a citadel taken by force - the hostile cry and the procession of arms through the city all is mixed with arms and fire, rather a sad silence then a silent grief transfixed all minds as now lingering in doorways, waiting, now wandering through their homes, which afterwards they could see.