Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 16.12.53

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[53] Iacebant itaque plurimi transfixi letaliter, remedia mortis compendio postulantes, alii semineces, labente iam spiritu, lucis usuram oculis morientibus inquirebant, quorundam capita discissa trabalibus telis, et pendentia iugulis cohaerebant, pars per¹ limosum² et lubricum solum, in sociorum cruore relapsi,³ intactis ferro corporibus, acervis superruentium obruti necabantur.

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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Res Gestae (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).)

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[53] And so a great number of them lay there pierced with mortal wounds, begging for death as a speedy relief; others half-dead, with their spirit already slipping away, sought with dying eyes for longer enjoyment of the light; some had their heads severed by pikes heavy as beams, so that they hung down, connected only by their throats; some had fallen in their comrades’ blood on the miry, slippery ground, and although their persons were untouched by the steel, they were perishing, buried beneath the heaps of those who kept falling above them.

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1. per, added by W 2G; V omits.

2. limosum, Clark; scruposum, Her.; lutosum, BG; cliuosum, W 2; luerosum, omitting per, V.

3. relapsi, Clark, prolapsi, Her.c.c.; lapse, V.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 16.12.53

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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