His et pluribus in eundem modum perpulerant ut ne legati quidem ac duces partium restingui posse iracundiam exercitus arbitrarentur, cum haud ignari discriminis sui Viennenses, velamenta et infulas praeferentes, ubi agmen incesserat, arma genua vestigia prensanda flexere militum animos; addidit Valens trecenos singulis militibus sestertios.
By these and similar appeals, they had brought the soldiers to the point where not even the commanders and leaders of the party thought it possible to check the armys hostile fury, when the people of Vienne, well aware of their danger, diverted the soldiers from their purpose by coming out along the line of advance, bearing veils and fillets, and clasping the soldiers weapons, knees, and feet. Valens too gave each soldier three hundred sesterces.
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