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[2] ἔπειτα τὰς ἀκμὰς τῶν σιδήρων ἀπέστρεφον. ἡ δὲ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀλκὴ καὶ πρὸς τὸ βάρβαρον αὐτῶν ἀντιτέχνησις εὐπαίδευτος τε ἦν καὶ πολὺ τὸ ἀσφαλὲς ἔχουσα. ἔτι γὰρ αὐτῶν ἀναιρομένων τὰς μαχαίρας ὑποδύνοντες ὑπὸ τοὺς βραχίονας καὶ τοὺς θυρεοὺς εἰς ὕψος ἀνατείνοντες, ἔπειτα γυροὶ καὶ βραχεῖς γινόμενοι, τὰς μὲν ἐκείνων πληγὰς ὑπερπετεῖς γινομένας ἀπράκτους καὶ κενὰς ἐποίουν, αὐτοὶ δὲ ὀρθὰ τὰ ξίφη φέροντες βουβῶνάς τε αὐτῶν ἔπαιον καὶ λαγόνας διῄρουν καὶ διὰ στέρνων ἐπὶ τὰ σπλάγχνα τὰς πληγὰς ἐξέτεινον: ὅσους δὲ ταῦτα τὰ μέρη διὰ φυλακῆς ἔχοντας αἴσθοιντο, γονάτων ἢ σφυρῶν νεῦρα διακείροντες ἐξέχεον ἐπὶ τὴν γῆς βεβρυχότας καὶ τοὺς θυρεοὺς ὀδακτίζοντας καὶ βοὴν ὠρυγῇ παραπλησίαν ὥσπερ τὰ
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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