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| ID |
5857 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
7 Itaque si interrogare possem hanc de qua loquimur nationem, quid tunc, cum haec ipsa sustinebat, de illis temporibus iudicarit, responderet ut arbitror dicens: 'sic me illa tunc febris exsanguem reddidit ac frigidam fecit, ut etiam haec, quae omnes paene perstrinxit, feruefacere uel commouere nequiuerit, atque ita me Romani inclinauerunt, ut nec ad Gothos surgam'. 8 Sed ne ipsa quidem Roma clades, quas intulit, euitauit. exercitae diu auctaeque sunt per totos mundi cardines potentiae ducum uiresque legionum, quae in sese concurrentes eius damno uincerent, cuius periculo uincerentur. nam uictorem Caesarem de Gallia reuersum ciuilia bella comitata sunt aliaque grauissima mala, interfecti apud Parthos Crassi et trucidati exercitus, praecesserunt. |
| Translation |
7. And so, if I could ask this nation which we are talking about, what
she thought about those times when she bore these ills, she would reply, I
think, as follows: ‘That fever has left me so bloodless and cold that even the
events of today, which have afflicted almost all the world, neither warm my
blood or move me. The Romans have left me in such a state that I cannot
rise up even against the Goths.’
8. Nor did even Rome herself escape the disaster that she inflicted. The
power of the commanders and might of the legions which had increased
and been exercised in every corner of the world and coming into conflict
with one another their victories were at her expense, and their defeats at her
peril. For it was civil war that accompanied Caesar’s return from Gaul and
this was heralded by other dire evils, such as the slaughter of Crassus and
his army in Parthia. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 6, Cap. 12, 7-8 (Vol. II, pp. 200-1 , trans. Fear, p. 289) |
| Temporal Coverage |
-49 - -45 |
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