Nec ulla pestis magis timebatur; quippe ubi inter loricam corpusque fervens harena penetraverat, nec ulla vi excuti poterat et quidquid attigerat perurebat, iacientesque arma laceratis omnibus quis protegi poterant vulneribus inulti patebant.
And no plague was more feared than this; for when the burning-hot sand had made its way between the coat-of-mail and the body, it could not be shaken out by any effort and burned through whatever it had touched; and the soldiers, throwing away their arms and tearing to bits everything by which they could be protected, were exposed to wounds without being able to retaliate.
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