Et pax specie humanitatis indulta, in perniciem est versa multorum, qui fame ad usque spiritum lacerati postremum, ideoque latenter progressi, aut imperitia nandi gurgite fluminis sorbebantur, aut si undarum vi superata venirent ad ripas, rapti a Saracenis vel Persis, quos (ut diximus paulo ante), exturbavere Germani, caedebantur ut pecora, vel longius amendati sunt venundandi.
But the peace which was granted under pretence of humanity caused the destruction of many, who, tormented by hunger up to their last breath, and so going ahead unnoticed by the army, were either, being unskilled in swimming, swallowed up in the depths of the river, or if they mastered the power of the stream and reached the opposite bank, were seized by the Saracens or Persians(who, as I said shortly before, had been routed by the Germans), and were either cut down like so many cattle, or led off farther inland to be sold.
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