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Non sinit nos M. Crassus, inter grauissimas Romani imperii iacturas numerandus, hoc loco de se silentium agere, plurimis et euidentissimis ante tantam ruinam monstrorum pulsatus ictibus. ducturus erat a Carris aduersus Parthos exercitum. pullum ei traditum est paludamentum, cum in proelium exeuntibus album aut purpureum dari soleat. maesti et taciti milites ad principia conuenerunt, qui uetere instituto cum clamore alacri adcurrere debebant. aquilarum altera uix conuelli a primo pilo potuit, altera aegerrime extracta in contrariam ac ferebatur partem se ipsa conuertit. magna haec prodigia, sed et illae clades aliquanto maiores, tot pulcherrimarum legionum interitus, tam multa signa hostilibus intercepta manibus, tantum Romanae militiae decus barbarorum obtritum equitatu, optimae indolis filii cruore paterni respersi oculi, corpus imperatoris inter promiscuas cadauerum strues auium ferarumque laniatibus obiectum. uellem quidem placidius, † sed quod relatu uerum est. sic deorum spreti monitus excandescunt, sic humana consilia castigantur, ubi se caelestibus praeferunt.
Valerius Maximus. Factorvm et Dictorvm Memorabilivm, Libri Novem. Karl Friedrich Kempf. Leipsig. Teubner. 1888. Keyboarding.
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