Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 26.10.5

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[5] Verum paulo postea cognita levi praesumptione Marcelli, milites missi sunt audaces et prompti, qui eum raptum, ut deditum noxae mancipium, in custodiam compegerunt. Unde post dies paucos¹ productus, lateribus sulcatis acerrime, pariaque perpessis consortibus, interiit,² hoc favorabilis solo quod abstulit Serenianum e medio, crudelem ut Phalarim, et illi³ fidum quia⁴ doctrinarum diritatem causis inanibus praetexebat.

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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[5] But learning a little later of the vain presumption of Marcellus, he at once sent bold and active soldiers who seized him and imprisoned him as a guilty slave. A few days later the usurper was brought out, his body was soundly scourged, and after his accomplices had been similarly treated, he was put to death: a man who deserves credit only for making away with Serenianus, who was cruel as Phalaris, and loyal to Procopius because of the accursed science which for vain reasons he pretended to have.¹

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Res Gestae

1. post dies paucos, Pet.; postridie, G; post dies, V.

2. interiit, G in b; inter, V.

3. et illi, Eyssen.; falari mille et ille, V.

4. quia, Her., who thought, c.c., that in primis, or something similar, had been lost before quia; a, V.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 26.10.5

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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