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| ID |
5833 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
1 At Romae - ut ad id tempus redeam unde digressus sum: neque enim interuallo miseriarum ad alios transire conpellor, sed, sicuti se quondam efferuescentia ubique mala. Ipsis actibus conligarunt, ita etiam permixta referuntur: nobis quippe conferre inter se tempora orbis, non cuiusquam partis eius laboribus insultare propositum est - 2 Romae ergo post urbem conditam anno CCLXL suspenso ad modicum bello grauis pestilentia, quae semper ibi raras indutias aut factas intercepit aut ut fierent coegit, per uniuersam ciuitatem uiolenter incanduit, ut merito praecedente prodigio caelum ardere uisum sit, quando caput gentium tanto morborum igne flagrauit. 3 Nam eo anno Aebutium et Seruilium ambo consules pestilentia consumpsit, militares copias plurima ex parte confecit, multos nobiles praecipueque plebem foeda tabe deleuit; 4 quamuis iam etiam superiore quarto anno oborta lues eundem populum depopulata sit. |
| Translation |
1. I shall now return to Rome and to that time from which I digressed. It is
not any break in Rome’s suffering that forces me to look at other peoples,
but, as these evils bubble up everywhere and collect themselves together
through their actions, so they must be discussed together, given that our task
is to collate the history of the world and not to pounce upon the troubles of
one part of that history. 2. At Rome then, 290 years after the foundation of
the City, a severe plague put an end to war for a while. Plagues always broke
the short truces that Rome made, or compelled her to make such truces. This
plague raged fiercely throughout the entire city, so the sky which had been
seen burning on fire was rightly seen as an omen of its coming, given that
the head of the world was ablaze with such a great flame of disease.110 3. In
that year the plague carried off both the consuls, Aebutius and Servilius, and
took the lives of most of Rome’s soldiers. Its foul decay killed many nobles
and even more of the plebs, 4. Though the people had already been ravaged
by an outbreak of the plague four years previously. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 2, Cap. 12, 1-4 (pp. 108-9, trans. Fear, pp. 92-3) |
| Temporal Coverage |
-503 - -503 |
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