Gothi intra vehiculorum anfractus sponte sua contrusi, numquam exinde per dies septem egredi vel videri sunt ausi, ideoque opportunitatem milites nancti, immensas alias barbarorum catervas inter Haemimontanas angustias clauserunt, aggerum obiectu celsorum, hac spe nimirum ut inter Histrum et solitudines perniciosa hostium multitudo compacta, nullosque reperiens exitus, periret inedia, cunctis utilibus ad vivendum in civitates validas comportatis, quarum nullam etiam tum circumsedere conati sunt, haec et similia machinari penitus ignorantes.
The Goths, of their own accord, crowded within the winding line of wagons, did not venture to come out or show themselves for seven days, and our soldiers, having thus found an opportunity, shut in the other huge hordes of barbarians within the narrow passes of the Haemus range by building high barriers. They doubtless hoped that the dangerous mass of enemies, crowded together between the Hister and the waste places, and finding no way out, would perish from lack of food; for all the necessities of life had been taken to the strong cities, none of which the enemy even then attempted to besiege because of their complete ignorance of these and other operations of the kind.
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