Sedit tamen sententia, ut omni spe meliorum succisa, Corduenam arriperemus, et sextum decimum Kalendas Iulias promotis iam signis, progresso imperatore cum lucis exordio, fumus vel vis quaedam turbinata pulveris apparebat, ut opinari daretur asinorum esse greges agrestium, quorum multitudo in tractibus est illis innumera, ideo simul incedens, ut constipatione densa feroces leonum frustrentur assultus.
Nevertheless it was decided, since all hope of anything better was cut off, to seize upon Corduena. Accordingly, on the sixteenth day of June, camp was broken, and the emperor was on his way at break of day, when smoke or a great whirling cloud of dust was seen; so that one was led to think that it was herds of wild asses, of which there is a countless number in those regions, and that they were travelling together so that pressed body to body they might foil the fierce attacks of lions.
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