Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 22.16.11

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[11] When they had come one day to collect this tax, which was excessive, the queen, who was ever skilled in deception, under pretence of a solemn festival, took the same tax-collectors with her to the suburbs, and gave orders that the work should be completed by unremitting toil. In seven days, by building dams in the sea near the shore, the same number of stadia were won for the land; then the queen rode to the spot in a carriage drawn by horses, and laughed at the Rhodians, since it was on islands and not on the mainland that they imposed a duty.¹

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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[11] Quod cum hi die quodam¹ nimium quantum petituri venissent, femina callida semper in fraudes, sollemnium specie feriarum eisdem publicanis secum ad suburbana perductis, opus iusserat inrequietis laboribus consummari, et septem diebus totidem stadia molibus iactis in mari solo propinquante,² terrae sunt vindicata; equorumque³ cum vehiculo ingressa riserat⁴ Rhodios, insularum non continentis portorium flagitantes.

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1. The language is somewhat obscure, but the meaning is clear. The Heptastadion connected the island of Pharos with the mainland, and so took away the right of the Rhodians to tax it as an island.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 22.16.11

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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