Quia igitur uno eodemque tempore, utrubique turbines exarsere maestissimi, competenti loco singula digeremus, nunc partem in Oriente gestorum, deinde bella barbarica narraturi, quoniam pleraque et in occidentali et in eoo orbe eisdem mensibus sunt actitata, ne dum ex loco subinde saltuatim redire festinamus in locum, omnia confundentes, squaliditate maxima rerum ordines implicemus.
Because, then, at one and the same time lamentable storms arose on both sides, we shall set down the single events in their proper place, first giving an account of a part of what took place in the Orient, then of the wars with the savages: since most of the events both in the west and in the east took place in the same months; for I fear that by hastening to return from one place to another by leaps and bounds we might confuse everything and involve the course of events in the deepest darkness.
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