Quibus ita utiliter ordinatis, rex ipse cum suis, dumeta per quae venerat viatore releretrorsus, monstranteque hispidam et iumento onusto exiguam callem, post terga relictis militibus evolavit, qui captis eius ministris, missis ad mentes observantium praestringendas, quasi venaticiam praedam, modo non porrectis brachiis exspectabant.
After these helpful precautions, the king himself, with his followers'the wayfarer tracing his way back amongst the thickets through, which he had come and showing a rough path very narrow indeed for a loaded pack-animal'left the soldiers behind him, and made his escape. They, after capturing his messengers, who had been sent merely to confuse the minds of those who were lying in wait for the king, were almost expecting him to rush into their open arms, like a wild beast at a hunt.
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