Quo rumore perculsus, praefectus praetorio Taurus, ut hostem vitans externum, mature discessit, vectusque mutatione celeri publici cursus, transitis Alpibus Iuliis, eodem ictu Florentium itidem praefectum secum abduxit.
Alarmed by this news, the pretorian prefect Taurus speedily retreated, as if avoiding a foreign enemy, and using the rapid changes of the public courier-service, he crossed the Julian Alps, at the same stroke taking away with him Florentius, who was also prefect.
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