Contra Langobardos paucitas nobilitat: plurimis ac valentissimis nationibus cincti non per obsequium, sed proeliis ac periclitando tuti sunt.
The Langobardi, conversely, are illustrious by lack of number: set in the midst of numerous and powerful tribes, they are delivered not by submissiveness, but by peril and pitched battle.
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