Cumque emensa sollemnitate paschali, recens de lavacro pars major exercitus arma capere, et bellum parare tentaret, Germanus ducem se praelii profitetur, eligit expeditos, circumiecta percurrit, et e regione qua hostium sperabatur adventus, vallem circumdatam mediis montibus intuetur.
And now the holy days of Easter being past, the greater part of the host goeth fresh from baptism to their armour and to make ready for war. Among them Germanus, declaring himself as captain in the battle, picketh a certain number of light soldiers, overrunneth the surrounding country and, on the side by which it was thought the enemy would pass, observeth a valley beset with hills on every side.
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