Itaque posteaquam viderunt hostem pertinaciter infestum, periculum servitutis, machinationem ad capiendam urbem conparatam, vastitatem civitatis expectandam, procubuerunt Diogneto rogantes, ut auxiliaretur patriae.
Therefore when they saw the stubborn enemy in the field against them, the danger of enslavement, the engine designed to take their city, the impending desolation of the state, they fell at the feet of Diognetus and implored him to come to the rescue of his native city.
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