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[8] Cui spadonum veterum hunc comparare debeam, [p. 230] antiquitates replicando complures invenire non potui. Fuerunt enim apud veteres (licet oppido pauci) fideles et frugi, sed ob quaedam vitia maculosi. Inter praecipua enim, quae eorum quisque studio possederat vel ingenio, aut rapax aut feritate contemptior fuit, aut propensior ad laedendum, vel regentibus 1 nimium blandus, aut potentiae fastu superbior; ex omni latere autem ita paratum, 2 neque legisse me neque audisse confiteor, aetatis nostrae testimonio locupleti confisus.

1 regentibus, Erfurdt, Mommsen; clientibus, Val.; largientibus, Novák; ligendi mus, V.

2 paratum, Damsté, cf. Cic. in Cat. iii. 7, 17; peritum, V.

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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