rex Atheniensium Codrus, cum ingenti hostium exercitu Attica regio debellata ferro igni vastaretur, diffidentia humani auxilii ad Apollinis Delphici oraculum confugit, perque legatos sciscitatus est quonam modo tam grave illud bellum discuti posset.
When the Attic territory was being devastated by fire and sword, beaten down by a vast army of enemies, Codrus, king of the Athenians, in despair of human aid fled for refuge to the oracle of Delphic Apollo and enquired through envoys how that grievous war could be dispelled.
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