Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 26.6.7

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[7] To the emperor’s cruelty deadly incentive was given by his father-in- law¹ Petronius, who from the command of the Martensian legion² had by a sudden jump been promoted to the rank of patrician.³ He was a man ugly in spirit and in appearance, who, burning with an immoderate longing to strip everyone without distinction, condemned guilty and innocent alike, after exquisite tortures, to fourfold indemnities, looking up debts going back to the time of the emperor Aurelian,⁴ and grieving excessively if he was obliged to let any one escape unscathed.

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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[7] Cuius diritati adiectum erat incentivum exitiale, socer Petronius, ex praeposito Martensium militum, promotus repentino saltu patricius, animo deformis et habitu, qui ad nudandos sine discretione cunctos immaniter flagrans, nocentes pariter et insontes, post exquisita tormenta quadrupli nexibus vinciebat, debita iam inde a temporibus principis Aureliani perscrutans, et impendio maerens, si quemquam absolvisset indemnem.

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1. The wife of Valens was Albia Dominica.

2. Apparently so named from the Marteni, a people of Babylonia. On the praepositi, see vol. i., Index II.

3. See Introd., vol. i, p. xxviii.

4. He ruled from 270-275.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 26.6.7

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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