Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 31.4.7

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[7] Well then, let the old tales revive of bringing the Medic hordes to Greece; for while they describe the bridging of the Hellespont, the quest of a sea at the foot of Mount Athos by a kind of mechanical severing,¹ and the numbering of the armies by squadrons at Doriscus,² later times have unanimously regarded all this as fabulous reading.

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] Resipiscant tandem memoriae veteres, Medicas acies ductantes ad Graeciam: quae dum¹ Hellespontiacos² pontes,³ et discidio quodam fabrili, mare sub imo Athonis⁴ pede quaesitum exponunt et turmatim apud Doriscum exercitus recensitos recensetos, concordante omni posteritate, ut fabulosae sunt lectae.

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1. I.e., cutting a canal through the isthmus of the peninsula on which the mountain stands.

2. Because they were too numerous to be counted as individuals, an enclosure which would hold 10,000 closely packed men was built; see Hdt. vii. 60.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 31.4.7

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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