Ad manum silva erat; quam rex ita caedi iussit, ut nudi stipites iacerentur; quippe rami fronde vestiti impedissent ferentes.
There was a forest at hand; this the king ordered to be cut in such a way that the tree-trunks should be thrown in stripped bare; for the branches covered with leaves would have hampered those who carried them.
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