Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 17.7.3

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[3] Then, as if the supreme deity were hurling his fateful bolts¹ and raising the winds from their very quarters,² a mighty tempest of raging gales burst forth; and at its onslaught were heard the groans of the smitten mountains and the crash of the wave-lashed shore; these were followed by whirlwinds and waterspouts, which, together with a terrific earthquake, completely overturned the city and its suburbs.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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History (English) (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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Res Gestae Perseus (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).) — 17.7.3 focus

[3] Dein velut numine summo fatales contorquente manubias, ventosque ab ipsis excitante cardinibus, magnitudo magnitude furentium incubuit procellarum, cuius impetu pulsorum auditus est montium gemitus, et elisi litoris fragor, haecque secuti typhones atque presteres, cum horrifico tremore terrarum, civitatem et suburbana funditus everterunt.

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1. Augural language; see Seneca, N.Q. ii. 41; for the usual meaning of manubiae, see Gellius, xiii. 25; he does not seem to know this use of the word.

2. Cardines are the four cardinal points, north, south, east, and west. Gellius, ii. 22, in his description of the winds, does not use cardines (probably because he speaks also of winds coming from between the cardines), but loca, regiones (§ 2), limites regionesque (§ 3), regiones caeli (§ 13), caeli partibus (§ 17).

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 17.7.3

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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