Ubi vero transeundi amnis aperte signum dedere, bucinae concrepantes, immane quo quantoque ardore, temere rapiendo momenta periculorum, semet quisque reliquis omnibus anteponens, vitare multa et terribilia festinabat, et pars ratibus temere textis, iumenta retinentes hinc inde natantia, alii supersidentes utribus, quidam diversa in necessitatis abrupto versantes, undarum occursantium fluctus obliquis meatibus penetrabant.
But as soon as the trumpets blast openly gave the signal for crossing the river, it was remarkable with what great eagerness and haste they rushed into all kinds of danger. Each man strove to outstrip all others and hastened to save himself from so many terrors; some used the hastily constructed rafts, holding to their horses as they swam here and there, others seated themselves on bladders, still others under the pressure of necessity found various other helps and rushed in an oblique direction into the waves of the onrushing waters.
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