Verum priores inimici ut Romanum militem abisse conspexerant, mox advecti navibus inrumpunt terminos, cduntque omnia, et quasi maturam segetem obvia quaeque metunt, calcant, transeunt: unde rursum mittuntur Romam legati, flebili voce auxilium implorantes, ne penitus misera patria deleretur, ne nomen Romanae provinciae quod apud eos tam diu claruerat, exterarum gentium improbitate obrutum vilesceret.
But the former enemies when they had once perceived that the Roman soldiers were gone, forthwith being set on land by boats invadeth the borders and maketh havoc of all things, and as it were corn ready to be cut, they moweth, trampleth and passeth over all before them: whereupon ambassadors be sent again to Rome, with lamentable voice requiring their succour, beseeching them they would not suffer their miserable country to be utterly destroyed, lest the name of Roman province, which through them had so long flourished, should now thus despite-fully be extinguished by the wicked cruelty of their foreign people.
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