Verum haec et similia loquentes in cassum, cum nec audirentur, nec quietum aliquid vel mite referri sentirent, filiorum flentes exitium discesserunt, eisdemque aegre digressis, ex abdito collis propinqui sinu, barbaricus prosiluit globus, optimatibus tum danda responsa (ut intellegi dabatur) opperiens: et adortus milites seminudos, humum etiam tum gestantes, expeditis agiliter gladiis, obtruncabant, inter quos etiam duces ambo sunt caesi.
But, since they said these and similar things to no purpose, as they were not listened to, and perceived that they would receive no peaceful nor mild reply, they withdrew, weeping at the fate of their sons. Scarcely had they left the place, when a band of barbarians who were awaiting the reply to be made (as they were given to understand) at that time to their chiefs, dashing forth from the hollow defile of a neighbouring hill, attacked our soldiers, who were half-nude and still carrying earth, and quickly drawing their swords were cutting them down; and with them also both leaders were slain.
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