5414. It was found that around that city of theirs they had gathered and positioned exceptionally skillful sorcerers whom they used to protect themselves, and that whenever they met anyone like this, they enticed him to themselves and gave [spirits like this] houses roundabout. In this way the city was girded by a belt.
5414. It was found that they had collected, and posted round about that city, magicians more cunning than any others, whom they employed for protecting themselves. Wherever they met any such one, they attached him to themselves; and to these they gave dwellings in the environs. Thus was the city girded about.
5414. Inventum quod circumcirca illam urbem eorum collegerint et posuerint magos solertes prae aliis, quibus uterentur ad se tutandum, ubicunque aliquem talem offendebant, allectabant ad se, et dederunt domos circum, ita urbs illa cincta fuit.