Tandem propemodum invias silvas emensi, humani cultus rara vestigia et passim errantes pecorum greges repperere; et incolae, qui sparsis tuguriis habitabant, cum se callibus inviis saeptos esse credidissent, ut conspexere hostium agmen, interfectis qui comitari fugientes non poterant, devios montes et nivibus obsitos petiverunt.
At last, after passing through almost pathless forests, they found sporadic traces of human cultivation, and flocks of sheep wandering here and there; and the inhabitants, who dwelt in isolated huts, since they believed that they were protected by the inaccessible by-paths, as soon as they caught sight of the soldiers, killed those who were not able to accompany them in their flight and made for the remote and snow-clad mountains.
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