iacentem[1] sagittās plūrimās coniēcērunt in hostīs; quī repentīnā rē[2] perterritī sē cōnfestim in silvās palūdēsque contulērunt. Quā in fugā periērunt multī, rēxque ab[3] Uncā ipsō captus est. Ab inimīcō salūtem petere dux victus scīlicet nōlēbat, et paulō post secūrī percussus est[4]: quō quidem[5] tempore Uncās, cum inimīcum humī moribundum vidisset, eius umerum sicā[6] appetīvisse dīcitur, frūstumque carnīs inde[7] abscīsum vultū laetō[8] dēvorāsse[9]; tantae enim saevitiae sunt mōrēs Indōrum.
Abhinc multōs annōs, cum in prōvinciīs, quae ad occidentem[10] spectant adhūc rārī essent colōnī, explōrātōrēs quīdam, domō[11] trāns montēs profectī, per regiōnēs īgnōtās multa mīlia passuum iter fēcērunt, et postrēmō locum idōneum nactī, procul ab amīcīs in rīpā pulcherrimī flūminis castellum parvum collocāvērunt; quibus rēbus factīs, nūntiōs mīsērunt, quī eōdem[12] mulierēs līberōsque dēdūcerent.
Hiems iam appropinquābat; omnēs[13] tamen cum nūntiīs libenter domō ēgressī sunt, et nāvigiīs parvīs vectī secundō[14]
- ↑ iacentem: lit. what?, prostrate.
- ↑ repentīnā rē: sc. hāc.
- ↑ ab: of.
- ↑ secūrī percussus est: lit. what?, i.e. was executed.
- ↑ quidem: omit in translation.
- ↑ sicā: abl. of means.
- ↑ inde: i.e. from it.
- ↑ vultū laetō: cf. p. 58, l. 4.
- ↑ dēvorāsse: for the form, cf. nāvigāsset, p. 3, l. 1.
- ↑ occidentem: cf. p. 65, l. 1.
- ↑ domō: the acc. and abl. of domus have the construction of town names (cf. the note on p. 79, l. 21).
- ↑ eōdem: bearing the same relation to idem, as eō to is, and quō to quī.
- ↑ omnēs: i.e. the women and children.
- ↑ secundō: cf. the force of the prep. secundum, and contrast that of adversō (flūmine).
