Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 26.7.17

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[17] Through these calm words, all the men who had come to fight hotly against him were pacified, and willingly went over to his side with the eagles and the tips of their standards lowered; and in place of terrible shouts that the barbarians call barritus¹ he was hailed as emperor; all crowded about him in the customary manner, and in harmony escorted him back to the camp, swearing, in the soldiers’ manner, by Jupiter that Procopius would be invincible.

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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[17] Hac sermonis placiditate molliti omnes, qui acriter venerant pugnaturi, signorum apicibus aquilisque summissis descivere libentes ad eum, et pro terrifico¹ fremitu, quem barbari dicunt barritum, nuncupatum imperatorem, stipatumque de more,² consentientes in unum, reduxerunt ad castra, testati more militiae Iovem, invictum Procopium fore.

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1. The battle-cry, or war-song, of the Gauls and Germans described in xvi. 12, 43; the word seems to be of Germanio origin, but was borrowed, with the battle-cry itself, by the Romans, xxi. 13, 15; xxxi. 7, 11,

quam, gentilitate, barritum vocant.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 26.7.17

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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