Forte ita acciderat, ut qui in agris erant populationem villarum vicorumque veriti, confugerent in urbem, oppidani cum ipsos alimenta deficerent, urbe excederent, utrique generi tutior aliena sedes quam sua  videretur.
By chance it had so happened that those who had been in the fields, fearing a devastation of the farmhouses and villages, were fleeing to the city, and that the townspeople, as provisions were failing them, were going out of the city, since to both classes the abode of the others seemed safer than their own.
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