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8.6
But scarcely were the passes open and our men conveniently gone, when the imprisoned barbarians, in disorder, wherever each man found no opposition, pressed on to set all in confusion; and unhindered they spread devastation over all the wide plains of Thrace, beginning at the very regions past which the Hister flows, and filling the whole country, as far as RhodopeA mountain range in Thrace in the narrower sense, not including Moesia. and the strait which separates two great seas,The Hellespont. with a most foul confusion of robbery, murder, bloodshed, fires, and shameful violation of the bodies of freemen.
8.7
Then there were to be seen and to lament acts most frightful to see and to describe: women driven along by cracking whips, and stupified with fear, still heavy with their unborn children, which before coming into the world endured many horrors; little children tooOn alios see xxiii. 3, 9, note 5. clinging to their mothers. Then could be heard the laments of high-born boys and maidens, whose hands were fettered incruel captivity.
