Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historiae Romanae, book 68, chapter 31

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“31. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἐς τὴν Ἀραβίαν ἦλθε, καὶ τοῖς Ἀτρηνοῖς, ¹ ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀφειστήκεσαν, ἐπεχείρησε. καὶ ἔστι μὲν οὔτε μεγάλη οὔτε εὐδαίμων ἡ πόλις: ἥ τε πέριξ χώρα ἔρημος ἐπὶ πλεῖστόν ἐστι, καὶ οὔθ᾽ ὕδωρ, ὅ τι μὴ βραχὺ καὶ τοῦτο δυσχερές, οὔτε ξύλον οὔτε χιλὸν ἴσχει. [p. 420] [2] καὶ πρός τε αὐτῶν τούτων, ἀδύνατον τὴν προσεδρείαν πλήθει ποιούντων, πρός τε τοῦ Ἡλίου, ᾧπέρ που καὶ ἀνάκειται, ῥύεται: οὔτε γὰρ ὑπὸ Τραϊανοῦ τότε οὔτε ὑπὸ Σεουήρου ὕστερον ἥλω, καίτοι καὶ καταβαλόντων μέρη τινὰ τοῦ τείχους [3] αὐτῆς. Τραϊανὸς δὲ τούς τε ἱππέας πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος προπέμψας ἐσφάλη, ² ὥστε καὶ ἐς τὸ στρατόπεδον αὐτοὺς ἐσαραχθῆναι, ³ καὶ αὐτὸς παριππεύσας βραχυτάτου ἐδέησε τρωθῆναι, καίπερ τὴν βασιλικὴν στολὴν ἀποθέμενος ἵνα μὴ γνωρισθῇ. τῆς δὲ πολιᾶς αὐτοῦ τὸ γαῦρον καὶ τὸ σεμνοπρεπὲς τοῦ προσώπου ἰδόντες ὑπετόπησάν τε εἶναι ὃς ἦν, καὶ ἐπετόξευσαν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἱππέα [4] τινὰ τῶν συνόντων οἱ ἀπέκτειναν. ἐγίνοντο ⁴ δὲ βρονταί, καὶ ἴριδες ὑπεφαίνοντο, ἀστραπαί τε καὶ ζάλη χάλαζά τε ⁵ καὶ κεραυνοὶ τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις ἐνέπιπτον, ὁπότε προσβάλοιεν. καὶ ὁπότε οὖν δειπνοῖεν, μυῖαι τοῖς βρώμασι καὶ τὁ̣̣̓ π̣̣̔̓μασι ⁶ προσιζάνουσαι δυσχερείας ἅπαντα ἐνεπίμπλων. ”

1 *)atrhnoi=s Val., a)garhnoi=s *wC.

2 e)sfa/lh *w2C2, e)sfa/gh *w1C1.

3 e)saraxqh=nai Reim., e)sarraxqh=nai *wC.

4 e)gi/nonto Bk., e)ge/nonto *wC.

5 te supplied by Bk.

6 pw/masi Dind., po/masi *wC.

Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-. Keyboarding.

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