Hac subita clade Lepcitani perterriti, ante incrementa malorum, quae intentabat barbaricus tumor, praesidium imploravere Romani, comitis per Africam recens provecti.
The people of Lepcis, greatly alarmed by this sudden calamity, before the evils which the insolence of the barbarians threatened should increase, implored the protection of Romanus, the newly-promoted commanding-general for Africa.
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