Eorum catervis subito visis, certare comminus dux cautissimus parans, adortusque nationis utriusque grassatores, minantes etiam tum acerbas strages multos occidit, trucidassetque omnes ad unum, ut ne nuntius quidem cladis post appareret, ni cum aliis multis perempto Farnobio, metuendo antehac incensore turbarum, obtestatus prece impensa superstitibus pepercisset, vivosque omnes circa Mutinam, Regiumque et Parmam, Italica oppida, rura culturos exterminavit.
When their bands suddenly came in sight, our careful leader prepared for a hand-to-hand conflict and opened an attack upon these marauders of both nations, which even then were threatening cruel carnage; he killed a large number and he would have slaughtered them all to the last man, leaving not even anyone to report the disaster, had he not, after the fall of Farnobius, before this a dreaded inciter of turmoil, and many others with him, spared the survivors in response to their earnest entreaties. But though he spared their lives, he banished them to the neighbourhood of Mutina, Regium, and Parma, towns in Italy, where they were to work in the fields.
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