When we came to an open field we unyoked the oxen and released them. We had intended to let the cartmen also go free when we had taken them far enough, but they must have thought that we were about to kill them, for we had hardly gone 50 yards when one of them made a break for it. Since his escape would mean disaster to all of us, one of us immediately gave chase, but as the terrified man was fleeing for his life it was only after about 800 yards that he was caught. The man who had to chase him was so enraged that he cut down the cartman on the spot with his sword. He then returned to us and said “I have killed the one that ran away. Now we cannot afford to let these others live, they have witnessed what happened to their companion.” So saying, he fell upon the remaining two prisoners and slew them. By that time it was morning.