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819 |
| Text |
De summa temporum vel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum (551 - 551) Jordanes |
| Quotation |
Imaginem urbis magis quam urbem fecerat: incolae deerant. Erat in proximo lucus: hunc asylum facit, et statim mira vis hominum, Latini Tuscique pastores, etiam transmarini Phryges qui sub Aenea, Arcades qui sub Euandro duce influxerant. Ita ex variis quasi elementis congregavit corpus unum, populumque Romanum ipse fecit. Res erat unius aetatis, populus virorum. Itaque matrimonia a finitimis petita, quia non impetrabantur, manu capta sunt. Simulatis quippe ludis equestribus virgines quae ad spectaculum venerant praedae fuere. |
| Translation |
He had made a picture of a city rather than a city: it lacked inhabitants. There was a grove nearby; he made this an asylum, and immediately there was an amazing number of men, Latin and Tuscan shepherds, even, from across the sea, Phrygians who were under Aenaeas, Arcadians under the leader Euander, had flowed in. Thus out of various as it were elements he assembled a single body, and himself created the Roman people. The situation was of a single age, a population of men. And hence, because they were not getting them after having sought marriage from the neighboring tribes, it was taken by force of arm. During pretended equestrian games, the young women who had come to the spectacle became the spoils. (Brian T. Regan, http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/Goths/Romana.htm) |
| Quotation source |
p. 10 (ch. 90) |
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