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| ID |
5860 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
15 Drusus in Germania primum Usipetes, deinde Tencteros et Chattos perdomuit. Marcomannos paene ad internecionem cecidit. 16 Postea fortissimas nationes et quibus natura uires, consuetudo experientiam uirium dabat, Cheruscos Suebos et Sygambros pariter uno bello sed etiam suis aspero superauit. 17 Quorum ex eo considerari uirtus ac feritas potest, quod mulieres quoque eorum, siquando praeuentu Romanorum inter plaustra sua concludebantur, deficientibus telis uel qualibet re, qua uelut telo uti furor possit, paruos filios conlisos humi in hostium ora iaciebant, in singulis filiorum necibus bis parricidae. |
| Translation |
15. In Germany Drusus first subdued the Usipetes and then the Tencteri
and Catti. He almost annihilated the Marcomani. 16. After this, he defeated
together in a single battle, though one that went hard with his men, the most
powerful peoples to whom nature has granted strength, and their way of
life, the ability to make use of that strength – the Cherusci, Sueves, and
Sygambri. 17. Their courage and ferocity can be judged from the following
fact: whenever their womenfolk were trapped among their carts by a Roman
advance and they ran out of weapons or anything that could in their fury be
used as a weapon, they would dash their own small children to the ground
and then fling them into the faces of their enemy, becoming parricides twice
over for the murder of each of their children. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 6, Cap. 21, 15-17 (Vol. II, p. 232, trans. Fear, p. 313) |
| Temporal Coverage |
-12 - -9 |
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