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While the said general was panting through this dust of Mars throughout Mauritania and Africa, the Quadi, who had long been quiet, were suddenly aroused to an outbreak; they are a nation now not greatly to be feared, 1 but were formerly immensely warlike and powerful, as is shown by their swift and sudden swoops in former times, their [p. 283] siege of Aquileia in company with the Marcomanni, the destruction of Opitergium, 2 and many other bloody deeds performed in rapid campaigns; so that when they broke through the Julian Alps, the emperor Marcus Pius, 3 of whom we have previously written, 4 could with difficulty check them. And, for savages, they had a just cause of complaint.

1 They had been conquered by Constaltius; see xvii. 12, 9 ff.

2 Modern Oderzo.

3 I.e., Marcus Aurelius.

4 In a lost book.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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