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).

For the warriors gladly made use of what they had won with their own hands, thinking that their valour had found new granaries;[*](I.e. sources of supply.) and they were delighted to have an abundance of provisions and at the same time save the food that was carried in the ships.

At this place a drunken soldier, who had rashly and without orders crossed to the opposite bank, was seized by the enemy before our eyes and killed.