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Post emensos insuperabilis expeditionis eventus, languentibus partium animis, quas periculorum varietas fregerat et laborum, nondum tubarum cessante clangore, vel milite locato per statiores hibernas, fortunae saevientis procellae tempestates alias rebus infudere 1 communibus, per multa illa et dira facinora Caesaris Galli, qui ex squalore imo miseriarum, in aetatis adultae primitiis, ad principale culmen insperato saltu 2 provectus, ultra terminos [p. 4] potestatis delatae procurrens, asperitate nimia cuncta foedabat. Propinquitate enim regiae stirpis, gentilitateque etiam tum Constantii 3 nominis, efferebatur in fastus, si plus valuisset, ausurus hostilia in auctorem suae felicitatis (ut videbatur).

1 infudere, HA; infundere, V.

2 saltu, Kellerbauer, Kiessling; cultu, V.

3 Constantii, Lind; Constantiani, Val; Constantini. 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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