Although our army had not yet marched to that forest, the wretched inhabitants there were already weeping bitterly, for they knew that many of our soldiers had become savage and would spare no one. Some of them swore never to flee, and others fled immediately; their leader honored the former and blamed the latter, and he consulted with whoever he saw, but no one would advise him well. He then said that he himself would speak to our general. Perhaps he would not have fared badly if he had gone alone, but he left his soldiers at home because he hoped that they would not be harmed there. But they followed him secretly (= escaped his noticed following him), some from one place and others from other places, in order to save their own leader from our men.

Καίπερ ὁ στρατὸς ἡμῶν οὔτω ᾔσαν πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ὕλην, τὸν ταλαίπωρον οἰκητὴν ἐκεῖ ἤδη πικρὸν κλάοντα, οἱ γὰρ ᾔσαν πολὺς στρατιώτους ἡμῶν ἄγριον γινόμενους καὶ οὐδεὶς φεισομένους; ὁ δὲ ἡγεμὼν αὐτων ἐκεῖνος ἐτιμησεν οὗτος ἐμέμφατο, καὶ αὐτος ᾧτινα εἰδόντι ἐσυμβουλεύσατο, ἀλλὰ οὐδεὶς αὐτῷ ἀγάθῳ συμβούλεσουσιν. ἔπειτα ἔφη τῳ στρατηγῷ ἡμῶν τὸν αὐτον φήσειν. ἴσως ὁ δὲ οὐ κάκως ἔπραξεν εἰ μόνος ᾔει, ἀλλὰ τοὺς στρατιώτους αὐτοῦ οἴκοι ἔλιπε ἅτε οὐ ἐκεῖ αὐτοὺς βλάψειν ἐλπίζει. ἀλλὰ αὐτοὶ αὐτῷ ἑπόμενοι ἔλαθον, ἄλλοι ἄλλοθεν, ἵνα τὸν ἐμουτῶν ἡγεμόνον τῷ ἀνδράςι ἡμῶν σώσειν.


despite the army of us not going towards that forest, the wretched inhabitants there already bitterly weeping, for those guys knew many soldiers of us savage becoming and no one sparing; the leader of them closer honoured further blamed, and he to whomever seeing he consulted, but no one to them the good they are consulting. Then he said to the general of us he the himself he will speak. Perhaps he not badly he did if only he was going alone, but the army of him at home he left since not there them to harm he hoped. But they from him following they escaped the notice, some from one place, others from another, so that the their own leader from men of us to save.