Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 30.1.17

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[17] And to palliate their fault or the deception which they had suffered from greater cleverness, they bombarded the ears of the emperor (most retentive of all gossip) with false charges against Papa, alleging that he was wonderfully skilled through the incantations of Circe¹ in changing and weakening men’s bodies; and they added that, having by arts of that kind spread darkness round himself,² and by changing his own form and that of his followers, having passed through their lines, if he survived this trickery, he would cause sad troubles.

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] Et leniendi causa flagitii sui vel fraudis, quam meliore consilio pertulerunt, apud imperatoris aures (rumorum omnium tenacissimas) incessebant falsis criminibus Papam, incentiones Circeas, in vertendis debilitandisque corporibus, miris modis eum callere fingentes: addentesque quod huius modi artibus, offusa sibi caligine, mutata sua suorumque¹ forma transgressus, tristes sollicitudines (si huic irrisioni superfuerit) excitabit.

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1. Cf. Odyss. x. 233 ff.

2. Offusa sibi caligine refers to Papa, meaning that he had wrapped himself in a cloud.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 30.1.17

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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