Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 29.2.15

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[15] At last, however, he yielded to insistent prayers, and ordered that some persons should precede the ill-omened bier of the body-snatcher¹ to the tomb, marching with bare heads and feet,² some also with folded hands.³ My mind shrinks from recalling, during that suspension of justice,⁴ how many men of the highest rank, especially exconsuls, after having carried the staves of honour and worn purple robes, and having their names made known to all the world 10 in the Roman calendar, were seen exposed to humiliation.

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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[15] Superatus tamen precibus destinatis, tandem nudatis capitibus, infaustam bustuarii libitinam ad usque sepulcrum incedentes et¹ pedibus, quosdam etiam complicatis articulis, praeire mandavit. Horret mens² reminisci, quo iustitio humilitati tot rerum apices visebantur, et praecipue consulares, post scipiones et trabeas et fastorum monumenta mundana.

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1. Cf. Suet., Aug. 100, 4.

2. A sign of mourning; cf. Apul., Metam. iii. 1.

3. Cf. xxviii. 1, 15.

4. Cf. mundanum fulgorem, xiv. 6, 3.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 29.2.15

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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