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Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
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1 Anno ante urbem conditam XXX Peloponnensium Atheniensiumque maximum bellum totis uiribus animisque commissum est: in quo mutuis caedibus ad hoc coacti sunt, ut uelut uicti se ab alterutro subtraherent bellumque desererent. 2 Tunc etiam Amazonum gentis et Cimmeriorum in Asiam repentinus incursus plurimam diu late uastationem stragemque edidit.
3 Anno XX ante urbem conditam Lacedaemonii contra Messenios propter spretas uirgines suas in sollemni Messeniorum sacrificio, per annos uiginti indefesso furore bellantes, ruinae suae totas Graeciae uires inplicuerunt. |
| Translation |
1. 30 years before the foundation of the City, there was a great war waged
with all their body and soul between the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians.
In it, both were compelled by the deaths suffered on each side to
withdraw from, and abandon, the conflict, as if they had been defeated by
one another.
2. Then, the sudden incursion of the Amazons and Cimmerians into Asia
caused devastation and slaughter far and wide for a long period of time.
3. Twenty years before the foundation of the City, the Lacedaemonians
waged war against the Messenians because their young women had been
spurned at a solemn Messenian sacrifice. They fought for 20 years with
untiring fury, entangling the entire strength of Greece in their ruin. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 1, Cap. 21, 1-3 (pp. 72-3, trans. Fear, p. |
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