Et potuisset aliorsum intentis hostibus exercitus inde transgressus, nullo id opinante, cuncta vastare, ni pauci ex eadem gente, quibus erat honoratioris militis cura commissa, populares suos haec per nuntios docuissent occultos, ut quidam existimabant.
And there the army might have been led over, while the enemys attention was turned elsewhere, and devastated the whole country without opposition, had not a few men of that same race, who held military positions of high rank, informed their countrymen of the design by secret messengers, as some thought.
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