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[7] Dum haec celerantur, Sabinianus inter rapienda momenta periculorum communium lectissimus moderator belli internecivi, per Edessena sepulchra, quasi fundata cum mortuis pace, nihil formidans, more vitae remissioris fluxius agens, militari pyrrice 1 sonantibus modulis pro histrionicis gestibus, in silentio summo delectabatur, ominoso sane et incepto et loco, 2 cum haec et huius modi factu dictuque tristia, futuros praenuntiantia 3 motus, vitare optimum quemque debere saeculi progressione discamus.

1 pyrrice, Clark; pyrrica, Val.; pyrrico, V.

2 et loco, Wagner; et inloco, V.

3 praenuntiantia, Günther, Mommsen; pronuntiant, V; futuros ... motus, del. Val.

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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