Res Gestae

After the Amicenses[*](A Sarmatian people; T.L.L. ) had been scattered and all but wholly destroyed, the army immediately attacked the Picenses,[*](Put by Ptolemy in Upper Moesia.) so named from the adjoining regions, who had been put on their guard by the disasters to their allies, which were known from persistent rumours. To subdue these (for it was hard to pursue them, since they were scattered in divers places, and unfamiliarity with the roads was a hindrance) they resorted to the help of the Taifali[*](A tribe of the West Goths; cf. xxxi. 8, 7.) and likewise of the free Sarmatians.

And as consideration of the terrain made it desirable to separate the troops of the allies, our soldiers chose the tracts near Moesia, the Taifali undertook those next to their own homes, and the

The Limigantes[*](See note on 13, 1, above.) having now suffered this fate, and terrified by the example of those who had been conquered and suddenly slain, hesitated long with wavering minds whether to die or plead, since for either course they had lessons of no slight weight; finally, however, the urgency of an assembly of the older men prevailed, and the resolve to surrender. Thus to the laurels of various victories there was added also the entreaties of those who had usurped freedom by arms; and such of them as survived bowed their necks with prayers before their former masters, whom they had despised as vanquished and weak, but now saw to be the stronger.