Nam praeter oppido propinqua alia omnia vasta, inculta, egentia aquae, infesta serpentibus, quarum vis sicuti omnium ferarum inopia cibi acrior.
For, except in the vicinity of the town, all else is desolate, wild, lacking water, and infested by serpents, whose violence, like that of all wild creatures, is fiercer as a result of the scarcity of food.
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