Et vertere solum extemplo omnes praecepti, manusque tendentes flentesque, orabant ne imponeretur sibi necessitas abscedendi, ad defendendos penates se solos sufficere sine alimentis publicis affirmantes et milite, satis confisi adfuturam Iustitiam pro genitali sede dimicaturis, ut experti sunt saepe.
And when all were commanded to leave their homes at once, with tears and outstretched hands they begged that they might not be compelled to depart, declaring that they alone, without aid from the empire in provisions and men, were able to defend their hearths, trusting that Justice herself would, as they had often found, aid them in fighting for their ancestral dwelling-place.
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