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5855 |
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Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
Interea Macedonicum bellum Claudius sortitus uarias gentes, quae Rhodopaeis montibus circumfusae sunt ac tunc Macedoniam crudelissime populabantur. 18 Nam inter cetera dictu audituque horrida quae in captiuos agebant, raptis, cum poculo opus esset, humanorum capitum ossibus cruentis capillatisque adhuc ac per interiores cauernas male effosso cerebro oblitis auide ac sine horrore tamquam ueris poculis utebantur: quarum cruentissimi atque immanissimi Scordisci erant - 19 has itaque, ut dixi, Claudius pellere Macedoniae finibus bello adtemptauit magnisque se malorum molibus obiecit: unde cum animo aeger et curis circumsaeptus, morbo insuper correptus esset, interiit. 20 huius successor Scribonius adtemptatarum superiore bello gentium uim declinans, in Dardaniam arma conuertit eamque superauit. 21 Publius uero Seruilius exconsule Ciliciam et Pamphyliam crudelissime adortus dum subdere studet, paene deleuit. 22 Lyciam et urbes eius obsessas oppressasque cepit. praeterea Olympum montem peruagatus Phasidem euertit, Corycum diruit, Tauri quoque montis latera in Ciliciam uergentia perscrutatus Isauros bello fractos in dicionem redegit; primus Romanorum per Taurum duxit exercitum ac limitem itineris fecit. triennio emenso, quo bellum gestum est, Isaurici nomen adsumpsit. 23 Cosconius proconsule sortitus Illyricum, protrita subactaque Delmatia Salonas, urbem florentissimam, post biennium tandem expugnauit et cepit. |
| Translation |
Meanwhile, Claudius, who had been allotted the Macedonian
War, attempted to drive out by force the various tribes who lived round
the Rhodope mountains and who were at that time were laying waste
to Macedonia in a horrendous fashion. 18. Among the rest of the tortures
that they inflicted on their prisoners, which are terrible both to speak, and
listen, about, when they needed a cup, they happily used, as if they were
genuine cups and with no sense of repulsion, blood-stained bones that they
took from human skulls, with hair still sticking to them and their insides
smeared with badly scraped out brains. The cruellest and most savage of
these tribes were the Scordisci. 19. It was these tribes, as I was saying, that
Claudius attempted to drive out from the borders of Macedonia and brought
a great number of troubles on his own head. As a result, while he was sick
at heart and surrounded by cares, he fell ill and died. 20. His successor,
Scribonius, declined to force the issue with the tribes his predecessor
had fought, turned his arms on Dardania instead, and captured it. 21.
The former consul Publius Servilius set about Cilicia and Pamphylia in a
terrible fashion through his eagerness to subdue them, and almost destroyed
them altogether. 22. He also captured Lycia, besieging and destroying its
cities. In addition to this, he crossed Mount Olympus, razed Phasis to
the ground, sacked Corycus, and combing the flanks of Mount Taurus
where it borders on Cilicia, he broke the Isaurians in battle and brought them
under Roman control. He was the first Roman to march an army through the
Taurus mountains and open up a road through them. In the third year of the
war, he received the name Isauricus.
23. The proconsul Cosconius was allotted the Illyrian War. He wore
down and subdued Dalmatia, and finally, after two years, took by storm and
captured the flourishing town of Salonae. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 5, Cap. 23, 17-23 (Vol. II, p. 147, trans. Fear, pp. 256-257) |
| Temporal Coverage |
-200 - -197 |
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