Maozamalcha

Maozamalcha urbs magna erat, validīs circumdata moenibus, in saxō nāta: quālem nōndum vīderat exercitus. Et priusquam obsidiō coepta est, ipsa via docuit quantī cōnstāret imperātor audāx. Nam dum situm cīvitātis ipse pedes — pedes, cum paucīs vēlitibus! — dīligentī inquīsītiōne explōrat, in perniciōsās praecipitātus īnsidiās “ex ipsō vītae discrīmine tandem ēmersit.” Quid acciderit, verbīs ipsīs audī:

• vēles -itis (m) mīles levis armātūrae
• inquīsītiō -ōnis (f) dīligēns quaesītiō
• ēmergō -ere, -mersī ex perīculō ēvādō