Et multis ultro citroque dictitatis, cum reverti debere per loca qua venimus, plebs vociferaretur imprudens, resistebat intentius princeps, multis cum eo id nequaquam fieri posse monstrantibus, per effusam planitiem pabulo absumpto et frugibus, vicorumque reliquiis exustorum inopia squalentibus ultima: quodque liquentibus iam brumae pruinis, omne immaduerat solum, et ruptis riparum terminis aucti, inhorruere torrentes.
And after much interchange of opinion, the inexperienced mob crying that we must return by the way we had come, and the emperor steadfastly opposing them, while he and many others pointed out that it was out of the question to go back through a flat country of wide extent where all the fodder and crops had been destroyed, and where what remained of the burnt villages was hideous from the utmost destitution; moreover, since the frosts of winter were now melting the whole soil was soaked, and the streams had passed the bounds of their banks and become raging torrents.
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