Paucis pernicitas saluti fuit; qui ubi, cognito urbis excidio, paludem transnavere, in vicina oppida ingentem intulere terrorem invictum exercitum et deorum profecto advenisse memorantes.
A few were saved by their swiftness, and when these, knowing of the destruction of the city, swam across the marsh, they struck great terror into the neighbouring towns by declaring that an invincible army, surely made up of gods, had come.
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