Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 29.5.30

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[30] Hocque eventu barbari nimium quantum elati,¹ sequentesque pertinaciter² certare necessitate compulsus³ semet ipsum et ad internecionem perdiderat cunctos, ni gentium turbulenta concussio, procul Mazicum visis auxiliis, quos anteibant quidam Romani, arbitrata in se impetum agminum ferri complurium, versa in pedes aperuisset nostris exitus antehac intersaeptos.

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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[30] The foe, tremendously elated by this success, followed persistently¹ . . . so that he found it necessary to fight; but he himself would have been killed and his army utterly annihilated, had not the enemy, attacking in disorder, seen afar off the auxiliaries of the Mazices, in the van of which were some Romans; so thinking that they were attacked by many columns, they turned in flight and opened to our men ways of escape which before had been blocked.

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Res Gestae

1. elati, Val.; V omits with lac. 5 letters; elati ipsum, omitted by G with lac. of 9 letters and 2 asterisks.

2. lac. of 2 1/3 lines, V.

3. compulsus, Her.; (lac. 9 letters) sussemet, V.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 29.5.30

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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