Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 29.1.23

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[23] Igitur cum praefecto praetorio summatibus quaesitis in unum, quibus cognitiones commissae sunt, intenduntur eculei, expediuntur pondera plumbea, cum fidiculis et verberibus, resultabant omnia truculentae vocis horroribus, inter catenarum sonitus Tene, claude, comprime, abde¹ ministris officiorum tristium clamitantibus.

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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[23] Accordingly, when the highest officials, to whom the investigations had been entrusted together with the praetorian prefect, had been called together, the racks were made taut, the leaden weights¹ were brought out along with the cords and the scourges. The whole place echoed with the horrible cries of a savage voice, as those who did the awful work shouted amid the clanking of chains: Hold him; clamp; tighten; away with him.²

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Res Gestae

1. abde, V; adde, Momm. (cf. Livy, xxvi. 16, 3); obde, Her. (cf. Prud., Perist. v. 95).

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 29.1.23

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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