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ἡ μὲν οὖν τῶν βαρβάρων μάχη πολὺ τὸ θηριῶδες καὶ μανικὸν ἔχουσα πλημμελής τις ἦν καὶ σοφίας τῆς ἐν ὅπλοις ἄμοιρος. τοτὲ μὲν γὰρ ἀνατείνοντες ἄνω τὰς μαχαίρας τὸν ἄγριον τρόπον ἔπαιον ὅλοις συνεμπίπτοντες τοῖς ἑαυτῶν σώμασιν, ὥσπερ ὑλοτόμοι τινὲς ἢ σκαπανεῖς, τοτὲ δ᾽ ἐκ τῶν πλαγίων ἀστοχάστους πληγὰς ἐξέφερον, ὡς αὐτοῖς σκεπαστηρίοις [p. 256] ὅλα διακόψοντες τὰ σώματα τῶν ἀντιπολέμων:
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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