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Contents of the Twelfth Book of Diodorus
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Artaxerxes, the king
of the Persians, died1 after a reign of forty years, and Xerxes succeeded to the throne and
ruled for a year.In Italy, when the Aequi revolted from the Romans, in the war which followed Aulus
Postumius was made Dictator and Lucius Julius was named Master of the Horse.
[2]
And the Romans, having marched against the territory of the rebels with
a large and strong army, first of all plundered their possessions, and when the Aequi later
drew up against them, a battle ensued in which the Romans were victorious, slaying many of the
enemy, taking not a few captive, and capturing great quantities of booty.
[3]
After the battle the revolters, being broken in spirit because of the
defeat, submitted themselves to the Romans, and Postumius, because he had conducted the war
brilliantly, as the Romans thought, celebrated the customary triumph. And Postumius, we are
told, did a peculiar thing and altogether unbelievable; for in the battle his own son in his
eagerness leaped forward from the station assigned him by his father, and his father,
preserving the ancient discipline, had his son executed as one who had left his station.
1 In the spring of 424 B.C.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AEQUI
- Smith's Bio, Artaxerxes I. or Artaxerxes Longinmanus
- Smith's Bio, Julus
- Smith's Bio, Tubertus
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