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... fines suos praegredientem incursavere Mardi, latrociniis exerciti contraque inrumpentem...

Mardi...exerciti...defensi: the Mardi...who engaged in/occupied themselves with brigandage and against anyone invading/attacking defended by mountains." The Mardi are the ancestors of the modern Kurds, who in the year 2017 have been much in the news.