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[10] But when our country increased in power, and the rule of consuls was in full sway, Marcus Didius, with great determination, checked these tribes that before had been always invincible and were roaming about without civilization or laws. Drusus confined them within their own bounds. Minucius utterly defeated them in a battle near the river Hebrus, which flows from the high mountains [p. 27] of the Odrysae, and after these the survivors were completely annihilated by the proconsul Appius Claudius in a hot fight. 1 Indeed, the Roman fleets took possession of the towns situated on the Bosphorus and the Propontis.

1 Florus, i. 39, 5, 6; Ruf. Fest. 9, 2.

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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