Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 31.10.5

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[5] Verum retrocedere coacti Germani, atque¹ noscentes exercitus pleramque partem in Illyricum (ut imperatore mox adfuturo) praegressam, exarsere flagrantius: maioraque coeptantes,² pagorum omnium incolis in unum collectis, cum quadraginta armorum³ milibus vel septuaginta, ut quidam laudes extollendo principis iactitarunt, sublati in superbiam nostra confidentius irruperunt.

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 although the Germans were forced to retire, being aware that the greater part of the army had gone ahead to Illyricum, where the emperor was soon expected to appear, they were fired with hotter rage; and planning still greater enterprises, they gathered into one place the inhabitants of all the villages, and with forty thousand armed men, or seventy thousand, as some boasted in order to exaggerate the emperor’s glory, full of pride and confidence broke into our territory.

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Res Gestae

1. Germani atque, vulgo; G. iamque, Her.; noscentesque, Val.; geminamque, etc., MSS. ( Germanique, NEA).

2. coeptantes, Kell.; conceptantes, MSS. ( conceptantes unum, om. WHT).

3. armorum, MSS., rest. by Pet.; armatorum, NEA (cf. xxx. 1, 14).

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 31.10.5

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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