Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Liber XXVII, chapter 7, section 9

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Liber XXII: Julianus

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[9] Haec autem et similia licenter ideo altiore fastu quidam principes agunt, quod amicis emendandi secus cogitata vel gesta copiam negant, inimicos loqui terrent amplitudine potestatis. Nil autem valet correctio ¹ pravitatum apud eos qui quod effici ² velint maximae putant esse virtutis.

1 nil autem (autem, cod. Scott.) ualet correctio, Clark (ualet, Novák; correctio, Val.; mentio, Dimock); nulla uasat uectio, V.

2 uelint effici, Madvig (transposui); ueineffi; maximas, 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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