Si statim infesto agmine urbem petiissent, grande
discrimen esset: sed in Venetiâ quo fere tractu Italia
mollissima est, ipsâ soli cœlique clementiâ robur elanguit. Adhoc panis usû carnisque coctæ, et dulcedine vini
mitigatos, etc.
This passage of Florus (iii. 3) is still more applicable to the Huns than to the Cimbri, and it may serve as a commentary on the celestial plague with which Idatius and Isidore have afflicted the troops of Attila.