Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 25.3.13

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[13] On that day fifty Persian grandees and satraps fell, besides a great number of common soldiers, and among them the distinguished generals Merena¹ and Nohodares² were slain. The boastfulness of antiquity may view with amazement the twenty battles of Marcellus in various places;³ it may add Sicinius Dentatus,⁴ honoured with a multitude of military crowns; it may besides admire Sergius,⁵ who (they say) was wounded twenty-three times in different battles, and whose last descendant Catiline tarnished the glorious renown of these victories with an indelible stain. Yet the joy in our success was marred by sorrow.⁶

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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[13] Quinquaginta tum Persarum optimates et satrapae cum plebe maxima ceciderunt, inter has turbas Merena et Nohodare potissimis ducibus interfectis. Obstupescat magniloquentia vetustatis diversis in locis proelia viginti Marcelli: Sicinium Dentatum adiciat ornatum militarium multitudine coronarum: miretur super his Sergium, qui viciens et ter vulneratus est in variis pugnis (ut fertur), cuius posteritatis ultimus Catilina claras gloriarum adoreas, sempiternis maculis obumbravit. Deformabat tamen tristitia laetiores eventus.

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1. Cf. 1, 11, above.

2. Cf. xviii. 6, 16.

3. Pliny, N.H. vii. 92, and Solinus, 1,107, speak of thirty-nine.

4. Val. Max. iii. 2, 24; Gell. ii. 11, 2; etc.

5. Cf. Pliny and Solin., l.c.

6. This sentence comes in abruptly: Büchele seems to refer it to what precedes.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 25.3.13

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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