Your hyaena-men caught my wife, and tormented her until she showed it them.
They fell upon it, and, with their comrades, ate it nearly all.

My wife died of starvation and her wounds, my children died of starvation, all except one, a child of six, whom I fed with what remained.

Then she began to die also, and I bargained with the Roman, giving him jewels and promising to show him the weak place in the wall if he would convey the child to his camp and feed her.

I showed him the place, and he fed her in my presence, and took her away, whither I know not.

But, as you know, I was caught, and the wall was built up, so that no harm came of my treason.