Et quidem, ut dixi, prohibuerunt amici ne hoc bellum iniret: sed quoniam anno praecedente noluerat audire reverentissimum patrem Ecgberctum, ne Scottiam nil se laedentem impugnaret, datum est illi ex poena peccati illius, ne nunc eos qui ipsum ab interitu revocare cupiebant, audiret.
And indeed (as I said) his friends did withhold him from beginning this war: but as the year before he had refused to give ear to the most reverend father Egbert warning him not to set upon Scotland that did him no harm, it was given him for a punishment of that sin, that he would not now hearken unto them that were desirous to call him back from his own destruction.
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