At qua pugna datur, necdum Maurusia pestis igne calet, circumfusi Rhoeteia pubes nunc iaculis, nunc et saxis, nunc alite plumbo eminus incessunt, ut qui castella per altos oppugnat munita locos atque assidet arces.
But, where battle was possible, and before the Moorish monsters were set on fire, the Roman soldiers surrounded them at a distance and assailed them with javelins and stones and flying bullets, like men besieging a citadel or attacking a fortified place on high ground.
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