Verum per circuitus longos et flexuosos ubi ventum est tandem ad loca, ira quisque percitus armorum urebat agros et pecora diripiebat et homines, resistentesque sine ulla parsimonia contruncabant.
Translation :
But when they finally, by long and circuitous detours, reached the spot, every man in the army, wild with anger, joined in setting the fields on fire and raiding flocks and men; and if they resisted, they butchered them, without compunction.
Edition :
Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.
Remark :
long-term consequence: Hortarius, the king of this group of Alemanni, asked Julian for peace and swore an oath to follow the orders of the Romans due to this destruction.
