Stelle 1 Pro dolor, pudet erroris humani....; (Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418), Lib. 1, Cap. 16, 1-4 (pp. 66-7, trans. Fear, pp. 65-6)) [2204]

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Text Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius
Quotation 1 Pro dolor, pudet erroris humani. mulieres patria profugae Europam atque Asiam, id est plurimas fortissimasque mundi partes, intrauerunt peruagatae sunt deleuerunt, centum paene annis euertendo urbes plurimas atque alias constituendo tenuerunt: nec tamen miseriae hominum pressura temporum deputata est. 2 Modo autem Getae illi qui et nunc Gothi, quos Alexander euitandos pronuntiauit, Pyrrhus exhorruit, Caesar etiam declinauit, relictis uacuefactisque sedibus suis ac totis uiribus toti Romanas ingressi prouincias simulque ad terrorem diu ostentati societatem Romani foederis precibus sperant, quam armis uindicare potuissent; 3 exiguae habitationis sedem non ex sua electione sed ex nostro iudicio rogant, quibus subiecta et patente uniuersa terra praesumere, quam esset libitum, liberum fuit; semet ipsos ad tuitionem Romani regni offerunt, quos solos inuicta regna timuerunt! 4 Et tamen caeca gentilitas cum haec Romana uirtute gesta non uideat, fide Romanorum inpetrata non credit nec adquiescit, cum intellegat, confiteri, beneficio Christianae religionis - quae cognatam per omnes populos fidem iungit - eos uiros sine proelio sibi esse subiectos quorum feminae maiorem terrarum partem inmensis caedibus deleuerunt.
Translation 1. O the sorrow caused by the shame of men’s errors! Women, who were exiles from their own land, invaded, passed completely through, and laid waste to Europe and Asia – that is the largest and most powerful parts of the world. They held them for almost 100 years, overthrowing many cities, and founding others. Still the burden of these times must not be imputed to men’s wretchedness. 2. The people who were once called the Getae and now are called the Goths, whom Alexander declared should be shunned, at whom Pyrrhus trembled, and whom even Caesar declined to fight, abandoned their homeland, and on leaving it, all entered the provinces of the Roman Empire with all their force. But though long regarded with terror, they then sought an alliance with the Romans that they could have exacted by arms, by entreaties, and 3. though they were free to seize as much as of the world that lay subjected beneath their feet as they wanted, they asked for a small home not of their choice, but subject to our decision. The only people whom unconquered kingdoms feared, offered themselves to guard the kingdom of the Romans. 4. But the gentiles in their blindness, when they do not see things brought about by Roman courage, will not believe that they have occurred through the faith of the Romans nor agree to concede, though they know it to be true, that through the gift of the Christian Religion, which joins all peoples in a family of faith, these men, whose womenfolk laid low the greater part of the world with immense slaughter, have now become their subjects without a battle being fought.
Quotation source Lib. 1, Cap. 16, 1-4 (pp. 66-7, trans. Fear, pp. 65-6)
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