Namque profecturi regis praecepto Atiulfi nostra ex urbe Gothi, fuerant qui in pace recepti, non aliter nobis quam belli iure subactis aspera quaeque omni urbe inrogavere cremata: in qua me inventum comitem tum principis eius, imperio cuius sociatos non sibi norant, nudavere bonis simul omnibus et genetricem iuxta meam mecum, communi sorte subactos, uno hoc se nobis credentes parcere captis, quod nos immunes poena paterentur abire, cunctarumque tamen comitum simul et famularum, eventum fuerant nostrum quaecumque secutae, inlaeso penitus nullo adtemptante pudore, me graviore tamen relevato suspicione munere divino, iuges cui debeo grates, filia ut ante mea per me sociata marito excedens patria communi clade careret.
For when about to depart from our city at the command of their king Ataulf, the Goths, though they had been received peaceably, imposed the harshest treatment on us, as though subdued by right of war, by burning the whole city. There finding me'then a Count of that Prince, whose allies they did not recognise as their own'they stripped me of all my goods, and next my mother also, both of us overtaken by the same lot, for this one grace considering that they were showing us, their prisoners, mercy'that they suffered us to depart without injury; howbeit, of all the companions and handmaidens who had followed our fortunes none suffered any wrong at all done to her honour, nor was any assault offered, yet I was spared more serious anxiety by the divine goodness, to which I owe constant thanks, because my daughter, previously wedded by me to a husband, was spared the general calamity by her absence from our country.
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