sed Chattis adeo inprovisus advenit, ut quod imbecillum aetate ac sexu statim captum aut trucidatum sit.
Translation :
But so suddenly did he come on the Chatti that all the helpless from age or sex were at once captured or slaughtered.
Edition :
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.
Remark :
long-term consequence: The armed men of the Chatti had swum across the Eder river to fight Romans constructing a bridge, described in: "Men of the Chatti attempt to prevent the construction of a bridge by soldiers of Germanicus, but are defeated and surrender or retreat."
