Cum victi mures mustelarum exercitu (historia, quot sunt, in tabernis pingitur) fugerent et artos circum trepidarent cavos, aegre recepti, tamen evaserunt necem: duces eorum, qui capitibus cornua suis ligarant ut conspicuum in proelio haberent signum quod sequerentur milites, haesere in portis suntque capti ab hostibus; quos immolatos victor avidis dentibus capacis alvi mersit tartareo specu.
When the mice, overcome by the army of weasels'a story pictured in all the taverns'were in full rout and were crowding in panic about the narrow entrances to their holes, although they had difficulty in finding room, they did, nevertheless, manage to escape death. But their generals, who had fastened horns on their heads, in order to have conspicuous insignia for the soldiers to follow, got stuck in the entrances and were captured by the enemy. The victor made them sacrificial victims to his greedy teeth, plunging them into the Tartarian pit of his ample belly.
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