Transiit cum notario dux (ut iussum est) statim, fodereque per militem quem duxit fundamenta exorsus, Hermogenen susceperat successorem, eodemque puncto quidam optimates Alamanni venere, obsidum patres, quos lege foederis mansuraeque diutius pacis haut aspernanda pignora tenebamus.
The general at once crossed the river with the secretary, as was ordered, and, with the soldiers under his command, had begun to dig the foundations, when Hermogenes was appointed as his successor. At the same moment some chiefs of the Alamanni arrived, fathers of the hostages whom we were holding in accordance with the treaty as important pledges of the continued permanence of peace.
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