Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 23.6.76

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[76] Most of them are extravagantly given to venery, and are hardly contented with a multitude of concubines;¹ they are free from immoral relations with boys.² Each man according to his means contracts many or few marriages, whence their affection, divided as it is among various objects, grows cold.³ They avoid as they would the plague splendid and luxurious banquets, and especially, excessive drinking.⁴

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

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[76] Effusius plerique soluti in venerem, aegreque contenti multitudine pelicum, puerilium stuprorum expertes, pro opibus quisque adsciscens matrimonia plura vel pauca. Unde apud eos per libidines varias caritas dispersa torpescit, munditias conviviorum et luxum maximeque potandi aviditatem vitante ut luem.

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1. Cf. Hdt. i. 135.

2. So also Curt. x. 1, 26, but according to Hdt. ( l.c.), they acquired this vice from the Greeks.

3. Cf. Sallust, Jug. 80, 6-7, on the Numidians.

4. Xenophon and Athenaeus do not agree with this.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 23.6.76

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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