Res Gestae
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).
He led and the army followed, but it was prevented from going forward by a barricade of tall felled trees. But when they finally, by long and circuitous detours, reached the spot, every man in the army,[*](For this use of armorum, cf. xxxi. 10, 5, cum quadraginta armorum milibus; etc.) wild with anger, joined in setting the fields on fire and raiding flocks and men; and if
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they resisted, they butchered them, without compunction.