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5853 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
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12 Igitur Fabius consul contra Lusitanos et Viriatum dimicans Bucciam oppidum, quod Viriatus obsidebat, depulsis hostibus liberauit et in deditionem cum plurimis aliis castellis recepit. Fecit facinus etiam ultimis barbaris Scythiae, non dicam Romanae fidei et moderationi, exsecrabile. Quingentis enim principibus eorum, quos societate inuitatos deditionis iure susceperat, manus praecidit. |
| Translation |
12. The consul Fabius fought against the Lusitanians and Viriatus,
driving off the enemy and freeing the town of Buccia which Viriatus was
besieging. He accepted its unconditional surrender along with that of
many strongholds. Then he perpetrated a crime that would have disgusted
even the furthest-flung barbarians of Scythia, let alone the Roman sense of
fidelity and moderation. He cut off the hands of 500 of their leading men
whom, in accordance with the law of surrender, he had summoned in order
to form an alliance with him. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 5, Cap. 4, 12 (Vol. II, p. 92, trans. Fear, p. 214) |
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