sed cadit in foveam praeceps, quam callida forte Fraus interciso subfoderat aequore furtim, Fraus detestandis Vitiorum e pestibus una, fallendi versuta opifex, quae praescia belli planitiem scrobibus vitiaverat insidiosis hostili de parte latens, ut fossa ruentes exciperet cuneos atque agmina mersa voraret; ac ne fallacem puteum deprendere posset cauta acies, virgis adopertas texerat oras, et superinposito simularat caespite campum.
But she falls headlong into a pit which as it chanced cunning Deceit had privily dug across the field'Deceit, one of those cursed plagues, the Vices, a crafty worker of trickery, who foreseeing the war had secretly broken the level earth with treacherous trenches on the enemys side, that the ditch might catch their regiments in their onrush and the columns plunge into it and be swallowed up; and lest the army should be watchful and discover the pit that was set to deceive it, she had concealed the edges by covering them with branches and laying turf over them to simulate ground.
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