Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 31.5.13

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[13] Again, when Marcus was ruling the empire, the united madness of different tribes, after endless alarms of war, after the woes of captured and plundered cities, after the destruction of forces shaken by the death of their able leader,¹ would have left only a small part of them unscathed.²

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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[13] Marco itidem moderante imperium, unum spirando vesania gentium dissonarum, post bellorum fragores immensos, post aerumnas¹ urbium captarum et direptarum, et pessum datas copias, concitas probi rectoris interitu,² partes earum³ exiguas reliquisset intactas.

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1. Macrinus Vindex, praetorian prefect of Marcus Aurelius; see Dio, lxxi. 3.

2. Text and exact meaning are uncertain; for the events referred to, see Dio, lxxi. ff.; Eutrop. viii. 13; Orosius, vii. 15, 6 ff.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 31.5.13

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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