Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 22.12.8

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[8] Haecque dum more pacis¹ ita procedunt, multorum curiosior Iulianus, novam² consilii viam ingressus est, venas fatidicas Castalii recludere cogitans fontis, quem obstruxisse Caesar dicitur Hadrianus mole saxorum ingenti, veritus ne (ut ipse praecinentibus aquis capessendam rem publicam comperit), etiam alii similia docerentur: deumque adfatus³ circumhumata corpora statuit exinde transferri, eo ritu quo Athenienses insulam purgaverant Delon.

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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History Perseus (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).) — 22.12.8 focus

[8] While these things were thus going on, as if in time of peace, Julian devoted to many interests, entered upon a new way of consultation, and thought of opening the prophetic springs of the Castalian fount;¹ this, it is said, Caesar Hadrian had blocked up with a huge mass of stones, for fear that (as he himself had learned from the prophetic waters² that he was destined to become emperor), others also might get similar information. And Julian, after invoking the god, decided that the bodies which had been buried around the spring,³ should be moved to another place, under the same ceremonial with which the Athenians had purified the island of Delos.⁴

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Res Gestae

1. more pacis (after procedunt) obelized by Clark, defended by Fletcher (cf. xxiii. 5, 3; Tac., Hist. iv. 15 and iv. 28) with comma after procedunt; transposui c.c.

2. novam, added by V 2.

3. deumque adfatus, Momm., who indicated a lac.; adfatus, V; ac statim G; ad fastus, Pet.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 22.12.8

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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