Namque, ut supra dictum est, imber violentius quam alias fusus, campos lubricos et inequitabiles fecerat, gravesque et propemodum immobiles currus illuvie ac voraginibus haerebant.
for, as was said above, the rain which had fallen with greater violence than usual had made the plains slippery and unfit for riding, and the heavy and almost immovable chariots stuck fast in the muck and  mudholes.
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