De reformacione pacis inter fratres et Sambitas.
The Sambians Return to the Faith
Chastised by afflictions, the Sambians submit to the Christian faith and offer their sons as hostages.
Chastised by these and various afflictions at the hands of the Lord, through the brothers and other Christians, the Sambians, no longer able to resist, presented their sons as hostages and submitted themselves once again to the Christian faith.123
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Hiis et variis afflictionibus castigati Sambite a domino per manus fratrum et aliorum cristifidelium, non valentes amplius resistere, presentatis filiis suis in obsides, subdiderunt se iterum fidei cristiane.
Notes
- 1 ↩Hiis: dative/ablative of hic; rendered as ablative of cause ('by these') following the candidate gloss, though a dative of means is also possible.
- 2 ↩cristifidelium: medieval Latin genitive plural of cristifidelis; case form is uncertain but genitive is the most plausible reading in context.
- 3 ↩presentatis: ablative absolute with filiis suis; agreement is ambiguous but the sense is clearly 'their sons having been presented.'
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