Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 19.9.6

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[6] The sudden departure, contrary to every one’s expectation, of the stranger, who had returned by the right of postliminium¹ and immediately vanished without anyone’s knowledge, aroused the suspicions of the general Cassianus and the other important officials in Nisibis, who assailed Craugasius with dire threats, loudly insisting that the man had neither come nor gone without his wish.

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

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[6] Praeter spem itaque omnium digresso advena repentino, qui postliminio reversus, statim sine ullius evanuit conscientia, perculsus suspicione dux Cassianus, praesidentesque ibi proceres alii, minitantes ultima Craugasium incessebant, non sine eius voluntate vel venisse vel abisse hominem clamitantes.

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1. Postliminium is literally a return behind the threshold; i.e. a complete return home with restoration of one’s former rank, privileges, and condition. The slave seems to have been captured by the Persians with his mistress, and pretended to have escaped from the enemy. On his return to Nisibis, he again became the slave of Craugasius.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 19.9.6

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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