Quibus ille ut cunctatorem decuerat ducem, examinatius lectis, attonitus cogitationibus anxiis, Paterniano notario misso, negotium scrupulosa quaesivit indagine, moxque veris per eum nuntiis gestorum acceptis, evolare protinus festinarat, ausos temerare limitem barbaros, primo fragore (ut mente conceperat), oppressurus armorum.
On reading this with careful attention, as became a cautious general, he was distracted by anxious reflections and sending the secretary Paternianus, gave the matter the most searching investigation. As soon as he received through him a true account of what had happened, he hastened to set out at once, in order (as he intended) to crush by the first clash of his arms the savages who had ventured to violate our frontier.
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