Seven Books of History against the Pagans 3.23.1–4.5.13
Latin text: Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (Latin text: K. Zangemeister (CSEL 5, 1882), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Seven 3, chapter 23
3.23.1CSEL 5:190
At ego nunc reuocor, ut per haec eadem tempora, quibus Romani ista perpessi sunt, quae inter se bella gesserint Macedonum duces reuoluam, qui mortuo Alexandro diuersas sortiti prouincias mutuis se bellis consumpserunt.
But now I am called back to unroll what wars the generals of the Macedonians waged among themselves during these same times in which the Romans suffered these things: who, after Alexander's death, having been allotted different provinces, consumed one another in mutual wars.
Notes and citation
Summary: He turns to the wars of Alexander's successors.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.1 (CSEL 5:190; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.2CSEL 5:190
quorum ego tumultuosissimum tempus ita mihi spectare uideor, quasi aliqua inmensa castra per noctem de specula montis aspectans nihil in magno campi spatio praeter innumeros focos cernam.
Their most tumultuous time I seem to myself to watch as though, looking by night from a mountain watchtower at some immense camp, I should see nothing in the great space of the plain except countless fires.
Notes and citation
Summary: Their wars were like the fires of a vast camp at night.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.2 (CSEL 5:190; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.3CSEL 5:190
ita per totum Macedoniae regnum, hoc est per uniuersam Asiam et plurimam Europae partem Libyaeque uel maximam, horrendi subito bellorum globi conluxerunt:
So throughout the whole kingdom of Macedonia, that is, throughout all Asia and most of Europe and the greatest part of Libya, horrible masses of wars suddenly blazed up:
Notes and citation
Summary: War blazed across the Macedonian empire.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.3 (CSEL 5:190; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.4CSEL 5:190
qui cum ea praecipue loca, in quibus exarsere, populati sunt, reliqua omnia terrore rumoris quasi fumi caligine turbauerunt.
while they especially ravaged the places in which they blazed up, they disturbed all the rest with the terror of rumour, as with the darkness of smoke.
Notes and citation
Summary: Fear of war spread everywhere.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.4 (CSEL 5:190; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.5CSEL 5:190
sed nequaquam tantorum regum ac regnorum bella excidiaque explicabo, nisi prius ipsa cum regibus regna prodidero.
But I shall by no means set out the wars and destructions of such great kings and kingdoms unless I first reveal the kingdoms themselves together with the kings.
Notes and citation
Summary: First he lists the successors' kingdoms.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.5 (CSEL 5:190; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.6CSEL 5:190
Igitur Alexander per duodecim annos trementem sub se orbem ferro pressit, principes uero eius quattuordecim annis dilaniauerunt et ueluti opimam praedam a magno leone prostratam auidi discerpsere catuli, seque ipsos inuicem in rixam inritatos praedae aemulatione fregerunt.
So Alexander for twelve years pressed with the sword the world trembling beneath him, but his chief men tore it apart for fourteen years, and like greedy cubs they tore to pieces the rich prey laid low by a great lion, and, provoked to quarrel with one another by rivalry over the prey, broke themselves.
Notes and citation
Summary: Alexander's generals tore the empire apart like cubs.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.6 (CSEL 5:190; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.7CSEL 5:190–191
itaque prima Ptolemaeo Aegyptus et Africae Arabiaeque pars sorte prouenit. confinem huic prouinciae Syriam Laomedon Mitylinaeus, Ciliciam Philotas, Philo Illyrios accipiunt.
So first Egypt and part of Africa and Arabia fell by lot to Ptolemy. Laomedon of Mytilene received Syria, bordering this province, Philotas Cilicia, Philo the Illyrians.
Notes and citation
Summary: Ptolemy received Egypt.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.7 (CSEL 5:190–191; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.8CSEL 5:191
Mediae maiori Atropatas, minori socer Perdiccae praeponitur. Susiana gens Scyno, Phrygia maior Antigono Philippi filio adsignatur.
Atropatus was set over Greater Media, the father-in-law of Perdiccas over the Lesser. The Susian people were assigned to Scynus, Greater Phrygia to Antigonus, son of Philip.
Notes and citation
Summary: Media, Susiana, and Phrygia were assigned.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.8 (CSEL 5:191; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.9CSEL 5:191
Lyciam et Pamphyliam Nearchus, Cariam Cassander, Lydiam Menander sortiuntur. Leonnatus minorem Phrygiam accipit.
Nearchus was allotted Lycia and Pamphylia, Cassander Caria, Menander Lydia. Leonnatus received Lesser Phrygia.
Notes and citation
Summary: Lycia, Caria, Lydia, and Lesser Phrygia were assigned.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.9 (CSEL 5:191; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.10CSEL 5:191
Thracia et regiones Pontici maris Lysimacho, Cappadocia cum Paphlagonia Eumeni data. summa castrorum Seleuco Antiochi filio cessit; stipatoribus regis satellitibusque Cassander filius Antipatri praeficitur.
Thrace and the regions of the Pontic Sea were given to Lysimachus, Cappadocia with Paphlagonia to Eumenes. The supreme command of the camp went to Seleucus, son of Antiochus; Cassander, son of Antipater, was put in charge of the king's bodyguards and attendants.
Notes and citation
Summary: Thrace, Cappadocia, and the high command were assigned.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.10 (CSEL 5:191; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.11CSEL 5:191–192
in Bactriana ulteriore et Indiae regionibus praefecti priores, qui sub Alexandro esse coeperant, permanserunt. Seres inter duos amnes Hydaspen et Indum constitutos Taxiles habuit.
In farther Bactria and the regions of India the former prefects, who had begun to serve under Alexander, remained. Taxiles held the Seres, set between the two rivers Hydaspes and Indus.
Notes and citation
Summary: The eastern prefects remained.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.11 (CSEL 5:191–192; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.12CSEL 5:192
in colonias in Indis conditas Python Agenoris filius mittitur. Parapamenos fine Caucasi montis Oxyarches accepit.
Python, son of Agenor, was sent to the colonies founded among the Indians. Oxyarches received the Parapameni at the edge of Mount Caucasus.
Notes and citation
Summary: Python and Oxyarches were assigned.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.12 (CSEL 5:192; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.13CSEL 5:192–193
Arachossi Chedrosique Sibyrti decernuntur. Drancheos et Areos Statanor, Bactrianos Amyntas sortitur, Sogdianos Scythaeus, Statanor Parthos, Philippus Hyrcanios, Fratafernes Armenios, Tleptolemus Persas, Peucestes Babylonios, Archon Pelassos, Archelaus Mesopotamiam adepti sunt.
The Arachosians and Gedrosians were assigned to Sibyrtius. Statanor received the Drangians and Arians, Amyntas the Bactrians, Scythaeus the Sogdians, Statanor the Parthians, Philip the Hyrcanians, Phrataphernes the Armenians, Tlepolemus the Persians, Peucestes the Babylonians, Archon the Pelasgians, Archelaus Mesopotamia.
Notes and citation
Summary: The remaining provinces were assigned.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.13 (CSEL 5:192–193; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.14CSEL 5:193
Igitur causa et origo bellorum epistula Alexandri regis fuit, qua iussit omnes exules patriae libertatique restitui potentes enim ciuitatum Graeciae timentes, ne exules recepta libertate ultionem meditarentur, a regno Macedonum defecerunt.
So the cause and origin of the wars was a letter of King Alexander in which he ordered all exiles to be restored to their country and liberty; for the powerful men of the cities of Greece, fearing that the exiles, their liberty recovered, would plan revenge, revolted from the kingdom of the Macedonians.
Notes and citation
Summary: Alexander's order to restore exiles caused revolt.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.14 (CSEL 5:193; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.15CSEL 5:193
primi Athenienses, contracto triginta milium exercitu et ducentis nauibus, bellum cum Antipatro, cui Graecia sorte uenerat, gerunt, per Demosthenen quoque oratorem Sicyonam Argos et Corinthum ceterasque ciuitates sibi socias adiungunt, Antipatrum obsidione cingunt.
First the Athenians, gathering an army of thirty thousand and two hundred ships, waged war with Antipater, to whom Greece had fallen by lot; through the orator Demosthenes they also joined Sicyon, Argos, Corinth and the other cities to themselves as allies, and surrounded Antipater with a siege.
Notes and citation
Summary: Athens led a Greek revolt against Antipater.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.15 (CSEL 5:193; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.16CSEL 5:193
ibi dux eorum Leosthenes telo e muris iacto perfossus occiditur. Athenienses Leonnato, qui Antipatro auxilium ferebat, occurrunt eiusque copiis conminutis ipsum interficiunt.
There their leader Leosthenes, pierced by a missile thrown from the walls, was killed. The Athenians met Leonnatus, who was bringing help to Antipater, crushed his forces and killed him.
Notes and citation
Summary: Leosthenes and Leonnatus were killed.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.16 (CSEL 5:193; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.17CSEL 5:193
Perdicca uero bellum Ariarato Cappadocum regi intulit eumque uicit. in qua uictoria nihil praeter uulnera et pericula conquisiuit, nam omnes ante inruptionem urbis suae succensis domibus suis se suaque omnia concremauerunt.
Perdiccas made war on Ariarathes, king of the Cappadocians, and defeated him. In that victory he gained nothing but wounds and dangers, for before the storming of their city all set fire to their houses and burned themselves and all their possessions.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Cappadocians burned themselves rather than yield to Perdiccas.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.17 (CSEL 5:193; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.18CSEL 5:193–194
Post haec bellum inter Antigonum et Perdiccam oritur, grauissime multis prouinciis et insulis ob auxilia uel negata
After this war arose between Antigonus and Perdiccas, with many provinces and islands most grievously torn apart on account of help either refused
Notes and citation
Summary: War broke out between Antigonus and Perdiccas.
- The sentence continues in 3.23.19.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.18 (CSEL 5:193–194; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.19CSEL 5:194
uel praestita dilaceratis, diu deliberatum, utrum in Macedoniam bellum transferretur an in Asia gereretur: nouissime ipse Perdicca Aegyptum cum ingenti exercitu petit. sic Macedonia, in duas partes discurrentibus ducibus, in sua uiscera armatur.
or given; it was long deliberated whether the war should be carried into Macedonia or waged in Asia: at last Perdiccas himself sought Egypt with a huge army. So Macedonia, its generals running off in two directions, armed itself against its own vitals.
Notes and citation
Summary: Perdiccas invaded Egypt.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.19 (CSEL 5:194; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.20CSEL 5:194
Ptolemaeus Aegypti uiribus et Cyrenensibus copiis instructus occurrere bello Perdiccae parat. inter haec Neoptolemus et Eumenes cruentissimo inter se proelio digladiati sunt.
Ptolemy, equipped with the strength of Egypt and the forces of Cyrene, prepared to meet Perdiccas in war. Meanwhile Neoptolemus and Eumenes fought it out with each other in a most bloody battle.
Notes and citation
Summary: Ptolemy prepared; Neoptolemus fought Eumenes.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.20 (CSEL 5:194; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.21CSEL 5:194
uictus Neoptolemus ad Antipatrum fugit: quem ut Eumenen de insperato opprimat perurguet: quod Eumenes futurum ratus, insidiantes insidiis capit.
Neoptolemus, defeated, fled to Antipater, and urged him to overwhelm Eumenes unexpectedly; Eumenes, thinking this would happen, caught the ambushers in an ambush.
Notes and citation
Summary: Eumenes outwitted his attackers.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.21 (CSEL 5:194; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.22CSEL 5:194
in eo bello Polypercon occiditur, Neoptolemus et Eumenes mutuis uulneribus confossi, sed Neoptolemus interiit, Eumenes uictor euasit.
In that war Polyperchon was killed; Neoptolemus and Eumenes were pierced with mutual wounds, but Neoptolemus died, Eumenes escaped as victor.
Notes and citation
Summary: Neoptolemus died; Eumenes won.
- Polyperchon in fact survived (cf. 3.23.30); Orosius probably means Craterus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.22 (CSEL 5:194; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.23CSEL 5:194–195
Perdicca cum Ptolemaeo acerbissimo bello congressus, amissis copiis ipse quoque interfectus est. Eumenes Python et Illyrius et Alceta frater Perdiccae a Macedonibus hostes pronuntiantur, bellumque aduersus eos Antigono decernitur.
Perdiccas, engaging Ptolemy in a most bitter war, lost his forces and was himself also killed. Eumenes, Python, Illyrius and Alcetas, brother of Perdiccas, were declared enemies by the Macedonians, and the war against them was assigned to Antigonus.
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Summary: Perdiccas was killed; Eumenes was outlawed.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.23 (CSEL 5:194–195; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.24CSEL 5:195
Itaque Eumenes et Antigonus conlatis aduersum se maximis copiis conflixerunt. Eumenes uictus in quoddam castellum munitissimum fugit, unde auxilia Antipatri tunc potentissimi per legatos poposcit: quo nuntio territus Antigonus ab obsidione discessit.
So Eumenes and Antigonus, bringing very great forces against each other, clashed. Eumenes, defeated, fled to a very strongly fortified fort, from which he asked by envoys for the help of Antipater, then most powerful: terrified by this news, Antigonus withdrew from the siege.
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Summary: Antigonus defeated Eumenes and besieged him.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): adnersum → aduersum.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.24 (CSEL 5:195; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.25CSEL 5:195
sed nec sic Eumeni spes firma aut salus certa. quare ultimo consilio argyraspidas ob arma deargentata sic dictos, hoc est milites, qui sub Alexandro militauerant, in auxilium rogat:
But not even so did Eumenes have firm hope or sure safety. So, as a last counsel, he asked for help from the Argyraspids, so called from their silvered arms, that is, the soldiers who had served under Alexander:
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Summary: Eumenes called on the Silver Shields.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): nec sio → nec sic.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.25 (CSEL 5:195; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.26CSEL 5:195
qui fastidiose ducem in disponendo bello audientes ab Antigono uicti castrisque priuati, et uxores et liberos simulque omnia, quae sub Alexandro adquisierant, perdiderunt.
they, listening disdainfully to their leader in the disposition of the war, were defeated by Antigonus and deprived of their camp, and lost their wives and children and at the same time everything they had acquired under Alexander.
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Summary: The Silver Shields lost everything.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.26 (CSEL 5:195; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.27CSEL 5:195
qui postea turpiter per legatos reddi sibi quae perdiderant, uictorem rogant. Antigonus autem redditurum pollicetur, si sibi uinctum Eumenen pertraherent.
Afterwards they shamefully asked the victor through envoys to return to them what they had lost. Antigonus promised to return it if they would bring Eumenes to him in chains.
Notes and citation
Summary: Antigonus demanded Eumenes.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.27 (CSEL 5:195; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
3.23.28CSEL 5:195–196
ita illi spe recuperationis inlecti, dedecorissima proditione ducem suum, cuius signa paulo ante secuti fuerant, captiui ipsi captum catenatumque duxerunt et mox cum foedissima ignominia in exercitu Antigoni dispersi sunt.
So they, enticed by hope of recovery, by a most disgraceful betrayal led their leader, whose standards they had followed a little before, captured and chained, they themselves captives, and soon were dispersed with the foulest ignominy in the army of Antigonus.
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Summary: They betrayed Eumenes.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray punctuation): fuerant.:, captiui → fuerant, captiui.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.28 (CSEL 5:195–196; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.29CSEL 5:196
interea Eurydice, Arridaei regis Macedonum uxor, multa sub nomine uiri nefaria gerit per Cassandrum, quem flagitiose cognitum ad summum fastigium per omnes honorum gradus prouexerat: qui ex libidine mulieris multas Graeciae ciuitates adflixit.
Meanwhile Eurydice, wife of Arrhidaeus, king of the Macedonians, did many wicked things in her husband's name through Cassander, whom, having shamefully known him, she had advanced through all the grades of honours to the highest summit; and he, at the woman's lust, afflicted many cities of Greece.
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Summary: Eurydice ruled through her lover Cassander.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): Arridoei → Arridaei.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.29 (CSEL 5:196; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.30CSEL 5:196
tunc Olympias, mater Alexandri regis, hortante Polyperconta, cum ab Epiro in Macedoniam prosequente Aeacida rege Molossorum ueniret et ab Eurydice finibus prohiberetur, adnitentibus Macedonibus Arridaeum regem et Eurydicen iussit occidi.
Then Olympias, mother of King Alexander, at Polyperchon's urging, when she came from Epirus into Macedonia with Aeacides, king of the Molossians, escorting her, and was kept from the borders by Eurydice, with the support of the Macedonians ordered King Arrhidaeus and Eurydice to be killed.
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Summary: Olympias had Arrhidaeus and Eurydice killed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): eum ab Epiro → cum ab Epiro; Maoedonibus → Macedonibus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.30 (CSEL 5:196; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-30). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.31CSEL 5:196
quamquam et ipsa Olympias continuo meritas crudelitatis poenas luit: nam cum muliebri audacia multas principum caedes ageret, audito aduentu Cassandri diffisa Macedonibus cum Roxa nuru sua et nepote Hercule in urbem Pydnam concedit:
But Olympias herself also at once paid the deserved penalty of cruelty: for when with a woman's daring she carried out many murders of leading men, on hearing of Cassander's approach, distrusting the Macedonians, she withdrew with her daughter-in-law Roxane and her grandson Hercules into the city of Pydna:
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Summary: Olympias fled to Pydna.
- The child was in fact Alexander IV; Orosius calls him Hercules (cf. 3.23.38).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): quamquaM → quamquam.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.31 (CSEL 5:196; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.32CSEL 5:196–197
ubi continuo per Cassandrum capta et interfecta est. filius Alexandri Magni cum matre in arcem Amphipolitanam custodiendus est missus.
there she was at once captured and killed by Cassander. The son of Alexander the Great with his mother was sent to the citadel of Amphipolis to be guarded.
Notes and citation
Summary: Cassander killed Olympias and imprisoned Alexander's son.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.32 (CSEL 5:196–197; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.33CSEL 5:197
Perdicca Alceta et Polyperconte ceterisque ducibus, quos commemorare longum est, diuersae partis occisis finita bella inter successores Alexandri uidebantur,
When Perdiccas, Alcetas and Polyperchon and the other generals of the opposing party, whom it would be long to recount, had been killed, the wars among Alexander's successors seemed ended,
Notes and citation
Summary: The wars seemed over.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.33 (CSEL 5:197; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.34CSEL 5:197
cum Antigonus ardens cupiditate dominandi liberandum bello Herculem regis filium ab obsidione simulat.
when Antigonus, burning with desire for domination, pretended that Hercules, the king's son, must be freed from confinement by war.
Notes and citation
Summary: Antigonus made war on the pretext of freeing Alexander's son.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): ardene → ardens.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.34 (CSEL 5:197; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-34). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.35CSEL 5:197
his cognitis Ptolemaeus et Cassander, inita cum Lysimacho et Seleuco societate bellum terra marique enixe instruunt. Antigonus in eo bello cum filio Demetrio uincitur.
On learning this Ptolemy and Cassander, entering into alliance with Lysimachus and Seleucus, prepared war strenuously by land and sea. Antigonus with his son Demetrius was defeated in that war.
Notes and citation
Summary: A coalition defeated Antigonus and Demetrius.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.35 (CSEL 5:197; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-35). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.36CSEL 5:197
Cassander Ptolemaeo in uictoria particeps factus cum Apolloniam rediret, incidit in Auieniatas: qui propter intolerandae multitudinis ranas et mures relicto patrio solo et antiquis habitaculis emigrantes, nouas sedes praetenta interim pace requirebant.
Cassander, having become Ptolemy's partner in victory, when he was returning to Apollonia, came upon the Avieniatae, who, because of the unbearable multitude of frogs and mice, had left their native soil and ancient dwellings and, emigrating, were seeking new seats, offering peace for the meantime.
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Summary: Cassander met a people driven out by frogs and mice.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slips): cam Apolloniam rediret, inoidit → cum Apolloniam rediret, incidit.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.36 (CSEL 5:197; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-36). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.37CSEL 5:197–198
sed Cassander et uirtutem et multitudinem gentis adgnoscens, ne adacti necessitate Macedoniam bello quaterent atque inuaderent, receptos in societatem in ultimis Macedoniae finibus conlocat.
But Cassander, recognizing both the courage and the multitude of the people, lest, driven by necessity, they should shake and invade Macedonia with war, received them into alliance and settled them in the farthest borders of Macedonia.
Notes and citation
Summary: He settled them on Macedon's border.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): nirtutem → uirtutem.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.37 (CSEL 5:197–198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-37). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.38CSEL 5:198
inde cum iam Hercules Alexandri filius quattuordecim esset annorum, timens ne eum omnes quasi legitimum regem praeoptarent, occidendum tacite cum matre curauit.
Then, when Hercules, son of Alexander, was already fourteen years old, fearing that all would prefer him as the legitimate king, he secretly had him killed with his mother.
Notes and citation
Summary: Cassander murdered Alexander's son and his mother.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.38 (CSEL 5:198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-38). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.39CSEL 5:198
ptolemaeus iterum cum Demetrio nauali proelio conflixit et cum omnem paene classem atque exercitum perdidisset, uictus in Aegyptum refugit.
Ptolemy again clashed with Demetrius in a naval battle, and, having lost almost all his fleet and army, fled defeated into Egypt.
Notes and citation
Summary: Demetrius defeated Ptolemy at sea.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.39 (CSEL 5:198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-39). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.40CSEL 5:198
hac uictoria elatus Antigonus, regem se cum Demetrio filio appellari iubet: quod exemplum omnes secuti regium sibi nomen dignitatemque sumpserunt.
Elated by this victory, Antigonus ordered himself to be called king together with his son Demetrius; following this example, all took for themselves the royal name and dignity.
Notes and citation
Summary: Antigonus took the title of king, and all followed.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.40 (CSEL 5:198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-40). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.41CSEL 5:198
igitur Ptolemaeus et Cassander ceterique alterius factionis duces cum decipi se ab Antigono singillatim uiderent, per epistulas se inuicem confirmantes coeundi in unum tempus locumque condicunt et bellum aduersus Antigonum communibus uiribus instruunt.
So Ptolemy and Cassander and the other generals of the other faction, when they saw themselves being deceived one by one by Antigonus, encouraging one another by letters, agreed on a time and place to come together and prepared war against Antigonus with common forces.
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Summary: The others allied against Antigonus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.41 (CSEL 5:198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-41). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.42CSEL 5:198
Cassander finitimorum bellis inplicitus Lysimachum, clarissimum inter omnes ducem, cum ingenti manu pro se sociis in auxilium misit.
Cassander, entangled in wars with his neighbours, sent Lysimachus, the most famous general of all, with a huge force on his behalf to help his allies.
Notes and citation
Summary: Cassander sent Lysimachus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.42 (CSEL 5:198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-42). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.43CSEL 5:198
Seleucus quoque ex Asia maiore descendens nouus Antigono hostis accessit. hic siquidem Seleucus plurima per Orientem inter socios regni Macedonici bella gessit.
Seleucus too, coming down from Greater Asia, joined as a new enemy of Antigonus. For this Seleucus waged very many wars throughout the East among the partners of the Macedonian kingdom.
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Summary: Seleucus joined the coalition.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.43 (CSEL 5:198; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-43). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.44CSEL 5:199
principio Babylonam bello expugnauit et cepit. Bactrianos nouis motibus adsurgentes perdomuit.
At the beginning he stormed and took Babylon in war. He subdued the Bactrians rising in new movements.
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Summary: Seleucus took Babylon and Bactria.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): Donis motibus → nouis motibus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.44 (CSEL 5:199; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-44). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.45CSEL 5:199
transitum deinde in Indiam fecit: quae post mortem Alexandri ueluti detracto excussoque a ceruicibus iugo praefectos eius occiderat, Androcotto quodam ad uindicandam libertatem duce. qui postea crudeliter in ciues agens, quos de externa dominatione defenderat ipse seruitio premebat.
Then he made a crossing into India, which after Alexander's death, as though the yoke had been pulled and shaken off its neck, had killed his prefects, with a certain Androcottus as leader to vindicate its liberty. He afterwards, acting cruelly against the citizens, himself pressed into slavery those whom he had defended from foreign domination.
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Summary: India had freed itself under Androcottus, who became a tyrant.
- Androcottus is Chandragupta.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.45 (CSEL 5:199; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-45). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.46CSEL 5:199
cum hoc ergo Androcotto Seleucus quamuis multa et grauia bella gessisset, nouissime firmatis regni condicionibus et pacta pace discessit.
So Seleucus, though he had waged many grave wars with this Androcottus, at last, the conditions of the kingdom being settled and peace made, withdrew.
Notes and citation
Summary: Seleucus made peace with Androcottus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.46 (CSEL 5:199; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-46). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.47CSEL 5:199
Adunatis itaque copiis Ptolemaei sociorumque eius, pugna committitur: cuius quanto potentior apparatus tanto ruina grauior fuit, nam in ea tunc totius paene Macedonici regni uires conciderunt.
So, the forces of Ptolemy and his allies being united, battle was joined; the more powerful its preparation, the graver its ruin: for in it the strength of almost the whole Macedonian kingdom then fell.
Notes and citation
Summary: The great battle of Ipsus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.47 (CSEL 5:199; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-47). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.48CSEL 5:199–200
in ipso bello Antigonus occisus est; sed finis belli huius initium alterius fuit: nam cum uictoribus de praeda non conueniret, iterum in duas factiones diducuntur: Seleucus Demetrio, Ptolemaeus Lysimacho iungitur;
In that very war Antigonus was killed; but the end of this war was the beginning of another: for since the victors did not agree about the plunder, they were again drawn apart into two factions: Seleucus joined Demetrius, Ptolemy Lysimachus;
Notes and citation
Summary: Antigonus fell, and the victors quarrelled.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.48 (CSEL 5:199–200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-48). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.49CSEL 5:200
Cassandro defuncto filius Philippus succedit. sic quasi ex integro noua Macedoniae bella nascuntur.
When Cassander died, his son Philip succeeded. So, as if afresh, new wars of Macedonia were born.
Notes and citation
Summary: Cassander's death led to new wars.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.49 (CSEL 5:200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-49). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.50CSEL 5:200
Antipater Thessalonicen matrem suam, Cassandri uxorem, quamuis miserabiliter pro uita precantem, manu sua transuerberauit.
Antipater ran through with his own hand his mother Thessalonice, Cassander's wife, though she was begging pitiably for her life.
Notes and citation
Summary: Antipater murdered his mother.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slips): Theseslanicen matrem saam → Thessalonicen matrem suam.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.50 (CSEL 5:200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-50). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.51CSEL 5:200
Alexander frater eius dum bellum aduersus fratrem ob ultionem matris instruit, a Demetrio, cuius auxilium petierat, circumuentus occiditur.
His brother Alexander, while preparing war against his brother to avenge their mother, was trapped and killed by Demetrius, whose help he had sought.
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Summary: Demetrius killed Alexander.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): ciroumuentus → circumuentus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.51 (CSEL 5:200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-51). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.52CSEL 5:200
Lysimachus cum Dori regis Thracum infestissimo bello urgueretur, aduersus Demetrium pugnare non potuit.
Lysimachus, since he was pressed by a most hostile war with Dorus, king of the Thracians, could not fight against Demetrius.
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Summary: Lysimachus was tied down in Thrace.
- The Thracian king is Dromichaetes in other sources; the name is garbled in the digital text.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): Thraoum → Thracum.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.52 (CSEL 5:200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-52). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.53CSEL 5:200
Demetrius augmento Graeciae et totius Macedoniae elatus, in Asiam transire disponit.
Demetrius, elated by the addition of Greece and all Macedonia, planned to cross into Asia.
Notes and citation
Summary: Demetrius planned to invade Asia.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.53 (CSEL 5:200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-53). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.54CSEL 5:200
Ptolemaeus autem et Seleucus et Lysimachus experti priore certamine, quantae uires essent concordiae, iterum societate pacta adunatisque exercitibus, bellum in Europam transferunt aduersus Demetrium.
But Ptolemy, Seleucus and Lysimachus, having learned in the former contest how great the strength of concord was, made an alliance again, united their armies, and carried the war into Europe against Demetrius.
Notes and citation
Summary: The others allied against Demetrius.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.54 (CSEL 5:200; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-54). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.55CSEL 5:200–201
his se comitem et belli socium Pyrrhus rex Epiri iungit, sperans Demetrium Macedonia posse depelli. nec spes frustra fuit: quippe exercitu eius corrupto ipsoque in fugam acto, regnum Macedoniae Pyrrhus inuasit.
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, joined them as companion and ally in the war, hoping that Demetrius could be driven from Macedonia. Nor was the hope vain: for when Demetrius's army had been corrupted and he himself put to flight, Pyrrhus seized the kingdom of Macedonia.
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Summary: Pyrrhus took Macedonia.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.55 (CSEL 5:200–201; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-55). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.56CSEL 5:201
deinde Lysimachus generum suum Antipatrum insidiantem sibi interfecit filiumque suum Agathoclem ultra humanum morem perosus occidit.
Then Lysimachus killed his son-in-law Antipater, who was plotting against him, and, hating him beyond human custom, killed his own son Agathocles.
Notes and citation
Summary: Lysimachus killed his son-in-law and his son.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.56 (CSEL 5:201; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-56). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.57CSEL 5:201
Quibus quidem diebus Lysimachia ciuitas formidolosissimo terrae motu euersa, oppressoque populo suo crudele sepulchrum fuit.
In those days the city of Lysimachia was overthrown by a most fearful earthquake and became a cruel tomb for its crushed people.
Notes and citation
Summary: An earthquake destroyed Lysimachia.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.57 (CSEL 5:201; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-57). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.58CSEL 5:201
Lysimachum autem adsiduis se parricidiis cruentantem omnes socii deseruerunt et ad Seleucum deficientes, pronum iam regem aemulatione regni, ut bellum Lysimacho inferret, hortati sunt.
All his allies deserted Lysimachus, who stained himself with constant murders of kin, and, defecting to Seleucus, urged that king, already inclined by rivalry for the kingdom, to make war on Lysimachus.
Notes and citation
Summary: His allies urged Seleucus to attack Lysimachus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.58 (CSEL 5:201; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-58). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.59CSEL 5:201
res foedissimi spectaculi erat, duo reges, quorum Lysimachus annos natus LXXIIII, Seleucus autem LXXVII, de eripiendis alterutrum regnis concurrere, in acie stare, arma gerere.
It was a most shameful spectacle: two kings, of whom Lysimachus was seventy-four years old and Seleucus seventy-seven, clashing, standing in the battle line, bearing arms, to snatch each other's kingdoms.
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Summary: Two old kings fought for each other's realms.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.59 (CSEL 5:201; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-59). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.60CSEL 5:201
ultimum hoc quidem bellum Alexandri commilitonum fuit, sed quod ad exemplum humanae miseriae fuerit reseruatum:
This was indeed the last war of Alexander's fellow soldiers, but one that seems to have been kept as an example of human misery:
Notes and citation
Summary: The last war of Alexander's companions.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.60 (CSEL 5:201; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-60). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.61CSEL 5:201–202
quippe cum orbem terrarum exstinctis iam XXXIIII Alexandri ducibus soli possiderent et angustissimos senectutis ac uitae suae terminos non aspicientes, angustos esse imperio suo totius mundi terminos arbitrabantur.
for though, thirty-four of Alexander's generals being already dead, they alone possessed the world, and, not regarding the very narrow limits of their old age and life, they thought the limits of the whole world narrow for their empire.
Notes and citation
Summary: They alone remained, and the world was too small for them.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (mixed letters in the numeral): xxxɪɪɪɪ → XXXIIII.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.61 (CSEL 5:201–202; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-61). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.62CSEL 5:202
in eo bello Lysimachus, uel amissis uel interfectis prius ante hanc pugnam quindecim liberis, postremus occisus est. sic Lysimachus solutio pugnae Macedonicae fuit.
In that war Lysimachus, who before this battle had lost or killed fifteen children, was killed last of all. So Lysimachus was the end of the Macedonian struggle.
Notes and citation
Summary: Lysimachus was killed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): sio Lysimachus → sic Lysimachus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.62 (CSEL 5:202; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-62). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.63CSEL 5:202
sed ne Seleucus quidem tanta uictoria inpune laetatus est: nam neque ipse post LXXVII annos quietem naturalis mortis inuenit, sed extortam sibi infeliciter uitam uelut immatura morte finiuit:
But not even Seleucus rejoiced in so great a victory unpunished: for neither did he himself, after seventy-seven years, find the rest of a natural death, but ended the life unhappily wrung from him as if by an untimely death:
Notes and citation
Summary: Seleucus too died by violence.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.63 (CSEL 5:202; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-63). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.64CSEL 5:202
quippe insistente Ptolemaeo, cuius sororem Lysimachus in matrimonio habuerat, insidiis circumuentus occisus est.
for at the instigation of Ptolemy, whose sister Lysimachus had had in marriage, he was entrapped and killed.
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Summary: Ptolemy had Seleucus assassinated.
- Ptolemy Ceraunus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.64 (CSEL 5:202; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-64). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.65CSEL 5:202
Haec sunt inter parentes filios fratres ac socios consanguinitatis societatisque commercia. tanti apud illos diuina atque humana religio pendebatur.
These are the dealings of kinship and alliance among parents, children, brothers and allies. Of so much weight among them were divine and human religion.
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Summary: Such was their regard for kinship and oaths.
- Ironical.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.65 (CSEL 5:202; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-65). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.66CSEL 5:202–203
erubescant sane de recordatione praeteritorum, qui nunc interuentu solius fidei Christianae ac medio tantum iurationis sacramento uiuere se cum hostibus nec pati hostilia sciunt;
Let them indeed blush at the remembrance of the past, those who now know that by the intervention of Christian faith alone, and with only an oath in between, they live with enemies and do not suffer hostile things;
Notes and citation
Summary: Now Christian faith and oaths keep peace with enemies.
Topics: Oaths
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.66 (CSEL 5:202–203; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-66). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.67CSEL 5:203
quibus indubitatissime probatur, quia non, sicut illi antea, caesa iungebant foedera porca, sed quia nunc inter barbaros ac Romanos creatorem et dominum suum contestantes tantam fidem adhibita in sacramentum seruant euangelia, quantam tunc nec inter parentes ac filios potuit seruare natura.
by whom it is most beyond doubt proved that it is not, as those men did before, that they struck treaties over a slain sow, but that now, between barbarians and Romans, calling their Creator and Lord to witness, they keep with the Gospels brought for the oath so great a faith as then not even nature could keep between parents and children.
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Summary: Oaths sworn on the Gospels now bind barbarians and Romans.
- 'They struck treaties over a slain sow' echoes Virgil, *Aeneid* 8.641.
Extrabiblical texts: Virgil, Aen. 8.641 (Virgil; quotation)
Topics: Oaths
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.67 (CSEL 5:203; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-67). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.23.68CSEL 5:203–204
Nunc autem finis Macedonici belli finis etiam libri fiat, praesertim cum iam abhinc Pyrrhi bella incipiant et mox Punica consequantur.
Now let the end of the Macedonian war be also the end of the book, especially since from here the wars of Pyrrhus begin and the Punic wars soon follow.
Notes and citation
Summary: Book 3 ends.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 3.23.68 (CSEL 5:203–204; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/3-23-68). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Seven 4, chapter 0
4.0.1CSEL 5:204
Dixisse Aenean Virgilius refert, cum post pericula sua suorumque naufragia residuos aegre socios solaretur, Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuuabit.
Virgil reports that Aeneas said, when after his own dangers and the shipwrecks of his men he was with difficulty consoling his remaining companions: "Perhaps one day it will please you to remember even these things."
Notes and citation
Summary: Virgil's line on remembering past troubles.
- Virgil, *Aeneid* 1.203.
Extrabiblical texts: Virgil, Aen. 1.203 (Virgil; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.1 (CSEL 5:204; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.2CSEL 5:204
haec sententia, semel apte ficta, semper uim sui triplicem diuersissimis effectibus refert, cum et praeterita tanto gratiora habentur in uerbis quanto grauiora referuntur in gestis et futura dum desiderabilia fastidio praesentium fiunt semper meliora creduntur,
This saying, once aptly framed, always brings back its threefold force with very different effects: past things are held the more pleasing in words the more grievous they are told in deeds, and future things, while they become desirable through weariness of the present, are always believed to be better;
Notes and citation
Summary: The past seems sweet and the future better.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.2 (CSEL 5:204; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.3CSEL 5:204
ipsis autem praesentibus ob hoc nulla in parte miseriarum iusta conparatio adhiberi potest, quia multo maiore molestia adficiunt quantulacumque sint ista quae sunt quam illa quae siue transacta siue uentura, etsi magna dicuntur, interim omnino tunc non sunt.
but with the present things themselves no just comparison of miseries can be made in any respect, because these things that are, however small they may be, affect us with much greater trouble than those which, whether past or to come, though they are called great, meanwhile do not exist at all.
Notes and citation
Summary: Present troubles always feel worst.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.3 (CSEL 5:204; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.0.4CSEL 5:204
ueluti si quis nocturnis pulicibus titillatus atque ex eo uigiliis anxius alias forte, quas aliquando ex ardentissimis febribus diu sustinuit, uigilias recordetur, procul dubio inpatientius feret istarum inquietudinem quam illarum recordationem.
As if someone, tickled by fleas at night and made anxious by wakefulness from it, should perhaps remember other wakeful nights, which he once long endured from the most burning fevers: doubtless he would bear the disquiet of these more impatiently than the memory of those.
Notes and citation
Summary: Fleas tonight feel worse than past fevers.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray control mark in the digital text): inquietudinem \t quam → inquietudinem quam.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.4 (CSEL 5:204; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.5CSEL 5:204–205
sed quamuis apud omnium sensus pro captu temporum ita uideri queat, numquid tamen aliquis exsistet, qui uel in ipsa anxietate pronuntiet grauiores pulices esse quam febres? aut acerbius accipiat se uigilare sanum quam dormire non potuisse moriturum?
But although it may seem so to everyone's feelings according to the capacity of the times, will anyone nevertheless be found who, even in that very anxiety, would declare that fleas are worse than fevers? Or would take it more bitterly to lie awake healthy than to have been unable to sleep when about to die?
Notes and citation
Summary: Yet no one would call fleas worse than fever.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.5 (CSEL 5:204–205; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.6CSEL 5:205
quae cum ita sint, delicatis istis et querulis nostris utcumque concedo, ut haec, quibus nunc, quia sic expedit, interdum admonemur, sentiendo grauia putent, non tamen coniueo, ut etiam adserant conparando grauiora.
Since this is so, I somehow grant these delicate and querulous people of ours that they may think grievous, by feeling them, these things by which we are now at times admonished, because it is expedient so; but I do not close my eyes to their asserting that they are graver by comparison.
Notes and citation
Summary: Let them feel their troubles, but not call them worse than the past.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip; stray mark): nune → nunc; sentiendo / grauia → sentiendo grauia.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.6 (CSEL 5:205; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.7CSEL 5:205
quemadmodum si quis e mollissimis stratis cubiculoque percommodo matutinus egrediens nocturno gelu lacunarum dorsa obriguisse herbasque incanuisse prospiceret et inopinato uisu admonitus diceret ‛frigus est hodie: hic mihi nequaquam reprehendendus uideretur, quia uel communi usu uel proprio sensu locutus esset.
Just as, if someone coming out in the morning from the softest bed and a most comfortable bedroom should see that the backs of the pools had stiffened with the night's frost and the grass had turned white, and, admonished by the unexpected sight, should say, 'It is cold today,' he would by no means seem to me to be blamed, because he would have spoken either by common usage or by his own feeling.
Notes and citation
Summary: Someone may rightly say it is cold.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.7 (CSEL 5:205; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.8CSEL 5:205
at si trepidus in cubiculum recurrens stratisque sese adoperiens uel magis abdens clamaret, tantum omnino frigus esse quantum nec in Appennino aliquando fuerit, cum Hannibal elephantos equos plurimamque exercitus sui partem niuibus clausus atque oppressus amisit:
But if, running back in alarm into his bedroom and covering himself with the bedclothes, or rather hiding in them, he should cry out that the cold was altogether as great as it never was even in the Apennines, when Hannibal, shut in and overwhelmed by snows, lost elephants, horses and the greatest part of his army:
Notes and citation
Summary: But not that it is colder than Hannibal's Alps.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.8 (CSEL 5:205; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.9CSEL 5:205–206
hunc ego puerilibus licentiis nausiantem non modo dicentem ista non ferrem, sed etiam ab ipsis stratis, otii sui testibus, in populum publicumque protraherem, eique foras producto infantes in eo atque ex eo gelu ludentes iucundantes sudantesque monstrarem,
I would not only not bear this man, sickened by childish indulgences, saying such things, but would even drag him from his very bedclothes, witnesses of his idleness, among the people and into public, and, bringing him outdoors, would show him children playing, delighting and sweating in that same frost and from it,
Notes and citation
Summary: He would show such a man children playing in the frost.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): dioentem → dicentem.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.9 (CSEL 5:205–206; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.10CSEL 5:206
ut uerbosa nugacitas delicatis uitiata nutrimentis non in tempore uiolentiam sed in se esse segnitiam doceretur et in conparatione rerum diiudicanda non maiores parua tolerasse sed se nec parua tolerare sufficere probaretur.
so that wordy triviality, spoiled by delicate nourishment, might be taught that the violence is not in the time but the sluggishness in itself, and in the comparison of things to be judged it might be proved, not that their elders endured small things, but that they themselves are not able to endure even small ones.
Notes and citation
Summary: The fault lies in their softness, not the times.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.10 (CSEL 5:206; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.0.11CSEL 5:206
Quod euidentius ipsis in memoriam reuolutis praeteritorum cladibus adprobabo Pyrrhi bello in primis, sicut ordo est, prodito. cuius causa et origo haec fuit.
This I shall prove more clearly by recalling to their memory the disasters of the past, setting out first, as the order is, the war of Pyrrhus. Its cause and origin was this.
Notes and citation
Summary: He begins with the war of Pyrrhus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.0.11 (CSEL 5:206; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-0-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Seven 4, chapter 1
4.1.1CSEL 5:206
Anno ab Vrbe condita CCCCLXIIII Tarentini Romanam classem forte praetereuntem, spectaculo theatri prospectam hostiliter inuaserunt, quinque tantum nauibus uix per fugam elapsis; cetera retracta in portum classis et profligata est; praefecti nauium trucidati, omnes bello utiles caesi, reliqui pretio uenditi sunt.
In the 464th year from the founding of the City, the Tarentines, catching sight from their theatre of a Roman fleet that happened to be passing, attacked it as enemies; only five ships scarcely escaped by flight; the rest of the fleet was dragged into port and destroyed; the captains of the ships were slaughtered, all fit for war killed, the rest sold for a price.
Notes and citation
Summary: Tarentum attacked a Roman fleet.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): elassis → classis.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.1 (CSEL 5:206; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.2CSEL 5:206
continuo missi Tarentum a Romanis legati, ut de inlatis quererentur iniuriis, pulsati ab isdem auctas insuper iniurias rettulerunt. his causis bellum ingens exortum est.
At once envoys sent by the Romans to Tarentum to complain of the injuries inflicted were beaten by the same people and brought back injuries increased besides. From these causes a huge war arose.
Notes and citation
Summary: Tarentum insulted Rome's envoys, and war followed.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.2 (CSEL 5:206; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.3CSEL 5:206
Romanos, qui quantique hostes circumstreperent permetientes, ultima adegit necessitas proletarios quoque in arma cogere, hoc est eos qui in Vrbe semper sufficiendae prolis causa uacabant, militiae adscribere: quippe cum frustra de prole cura est, nisi rebus praesentibus consulatur.
The Romans, measuring who and how great were the enemies roaring about them, were driven by the last necessity to force even the proletarians into arms, that is, to enrol in the army those who were always exempted in the City for the sake of supplying offspring: since care for offspring is vain unless the present situation is provided for.
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Summary: Rome even enlisted the proletarii.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.3 (CSEL 5:206; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.4CSEL 5:206–207
itaque inruit in uniuersos Tarentinorum fines cum Aemilio consule Romanus exercitus, igni ferroque uastat omnia, plurima expugnat oppida, iniuriam insolenter acceptam crudeliter uindicat.
So the Roman army with the consul Aemilius rushed into all the territory of the Tarentines, laid everything waste with fire and sword, stormed very many towns, and cruelly avenged the injury insolently received.
Notes and citation
Summary: Rome ravaged Tarentine territory.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.4 (CSEL 5:206–207; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.5CSEL 5:207
continuo Tarentinos, plurimis finitimorum praesidiis fultos, maxime Pyrrhus angit, qui etiam in se ob magnitudinem uirium consiliorumque summam belli nomenque transduxit.
At once the Tarentines, supported by very many garrisons of neighbours, were especially strengthened by Pyrrhus, who, because of the greatness of his strength and counsels, transferred to himself the conduct and name of the war.
Notes and citation
Summary: Pyrrhus took up Tarentum's cause.
- The digital text reads *angit* ('presses'), apparently for *auget* ('strengthens'); translated by sense.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.5 (CSEL 5:207; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.6CSEL 5:207
nam Tarentum, utpote ex Lacedaemoniis conditam cognatamque Graeciae ciuitatem, uindicaturus totas uires Epiri Thessaliae et Macedoniae, elephantos etiam usque in id tempus inuisos Romanis numero xx in Italiam primus inuexit: terra mari, uiris equis, armis beluis, ad postremum uiribus suis dolisque terribilis,
For, being about to defend Tarentum, a city founded by the Lacedaemonians and akin to Greece, he brought into Italy the whole strength of Epirus, Thessaly and Macedonia, and was the first to bring elephants, until that time unseen by the Romans, twenty in number: terrible by land and sea, with men and horses, arms and beasts, and finally by his own strength and wiles,
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Summary: Pyrrhus brought elephants into Italy.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (lost letter): nam arentum → nam Tarentum.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.6 (CSEL 5:207; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.7CSEL 5:207
nisi quod Delphici illius uanissimi spiritus et mendacissimi nebulonis, quem magnum ipsi uatem ferunt, responso circumuentus ambiguo exitum fecit eius, qui non consuluisset.
except that, entrapped by an ambiguous answer of that most empty Delphic spirit and most lying rascal, whom they themselves call a great prophet, he met the outcome of one who had not consulted.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Delphic oracle misled Pyrrhus.
- The oracle's answer, *Aio te, Aeacida, Romanos uincere posse*, could mean either that Pyrrhus would conquer the Romans or the reverse.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): mendaoissimi → mendacissimi.
Topics: Magic, divination, and astrology
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.7 (CSEL 5:207; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.8CSEL 5:207
itaque apud Heracleam, Campaniae urbem, fluuiumque Lirim prima inter Pyrrhum regem et Laeuinum consulem pugna commissa est. consumpta est grauissimo certamine dies, utrimque omnibus mori intentis, fugere nesciis.
So near Heraclea, a city of Campania, and the river Liris the first battle was joined between King Pyrrhus and the consul Laevinus. The day was spent in a most grievous contest, all on both sides intent on dying, not knowing how to flee.
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Summary: The battle of Heraclea.
- Heraclea was in Lucania, on the Siris; Orosius's geography is mistaken.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.8 (CSEL 5:207; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.9CSEL 5:207
introductos autem inter concurrentia agmina elephantos forma truces, odore graues, mole terribiles ut uidere Romani, nouo pugnandi genere circumuenti et territi, equis maxime pauitantibus, diffugerunt.
But when the Romans saw the elephants brought in between the clashing columns, fierce in form, heavy in smell, terrible in bulk, surrounded and terrified by a new kind of fighting, with the horses especially panicking, they scattered in flight.
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Summary: The elephants routed the Romans.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slips): iflter -conourrentia → inter concurrentia.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.9 (CSEL 5:207; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.10CSEL 5:207–208
sed postquam Minucius quartae legionis primus hastatus protentam in se manum beluae gladio desecuit et conturbatam dolore uulneris auerti bello atque in suos saeuire conpulit eiusque inmoderato discursu perturbari ac permisceri coepere, finis pugnae etiam beneficio noctis inpositus est.
But after Minucius, first hastatus of the fourth legion, cut off with his sword the trunk a beast stretched out against him, and compelled it, maddened by the pain of the wound, to turn from the battle and rage against its own side, and they began to be disturbed and confused by its unrestrained running about, an end was put to the battle, by the kindness of night as well.
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Summary: A wounded elephant turned on its own side.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.10 (CSEL 5:207–208; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.11CSEL 5:208
Victos fuisse Romanos turpis fuga prodidit: quorum tunc cecidisse referuntur peditum XIIII DCCCLXXX, capti MCCCX, equites autem caesi CCXLVI, capti DCCCII, signa amissa XXII.
That the Romans were defeated their shameful flight revealed: of them there are said to have fallen then 14,880 foot and 1,310 captured; of horse 246 killed and 802 captured; 22 standards were lost.
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Summary: Roman losses at Heraclea.
- The numerals are garbled in the digital text (*xnn DCCCLXXX*, *ICCCX*, *xxn*); read as XIIII DCCCLXXX, MCCCX, XXII.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (garbled numeral): xnn DCCCLXXX → XIIII DCCCLXXX; capti ICCCX → capti MCCCX; signa amissa xxn → signa amissa XXII.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.11 (CSEL 5:208; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.12CSEL 5:208
nam quantus e diuerso numerus sociorum Pyrrhi fuerit extinctus, memoriae traditum non est, maxime quia scriptorum ueterum mos est ex ea parte quae uicerit occisorum non commendare numerum, ne uictoriae
For how great a number of Pyrrhus's allies was lost on the other side has not been handed down to memory, chiefly because it is the custom of ancient writers not to record the number of the slain on the side that won, lest the losses of victory stain the
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Summary: Pyrrhus's losses were not recorded.
- The sentence continues in 4.1.13.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): qaantns → quantus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.12 (CSEL 5:208; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.13CSEL 5:208
gloriam maculent damna uictoria, nisi forte cum adeo pauci cadunt, ut admirationem terroremque uirtutis augeat paucitas perditorum, sicut in prima Persici belli congressione apud Alexandrum Magnum fuit: cui inter cccc fere milia hostium interfecta nouem tantummodo in exercitu eius pedites defuisse referuntur.
glory of the victory, unless perhaps so few fall that the small number of the lost increases admiration and terror of the courage, as was the case in the first engagement of the Persian war with Alexander the Great: of whose army, among almost four hundred thousand enemies killed, only nine foot soldiers are reported lost.
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Summary: Victors record only very small losses.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): forte oum adeo → forte cum adeo.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.13 (CSEL 5:208; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.14CSEL 5:208–209
sed Pyrrhus atrocitatem cladis, quam hoc bello exceperat, dis suis hominibusque testatus est, adfigens titulum in templo Tarentini Iouis, in quo haec scripsit: Qui antehac inuicti fuere uiri, pater optime Olympi, Hos ego in pugna vici uictusque sum ab isdem.
But Pyrrhus testified to his gods and men the atrocity of the slaughter he had received in this war, fixing an inscription in the temple of Tarentine Jupiter in which he wrote: "Men who before were unconquered, best father of Olympus, these I conquered in battle and was conquered by them."
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Summary: Pyrrhus admitted the cost of his victory.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): Tarentini Ionis → Tarentini Iouis.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.14 (CSEL 5:208–209; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.15CSEL 5:209
et cum a sociis increpitaretur, cur se uictum diceret qui uicisset, respondisse fertur: Ne ego si iterum eodem modo uicero, sine ullo milite Epirum reuertar.
And when he was reproached by his allies for calling himself conquered when he had conquered, he is said to have replied: "Truly, if I conquer again in the same way, I shall return to Epirus without a single soldier."
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Summary: The original Pyrrhic victory.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): uiotum → uictum.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.15 (CSEL 5:209; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.16CSEL 5:209
interea Romanus exercitus, postquam uictus clam fugit e castris, miserabilem belli cladem grauioribus monstris auctam accumulatamque persensit.
Meanwhile the Roman army, after it had fled secretly from the camp defeated, felt the wretched disaster of war increased and heaped up by graver portents.
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Summary: Portents added to Rome's defeat.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.16 (CSEL 5:209; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.17CSEL 5:209
nam pabulatores forte progressos uelut hostilis quaedam oborta tempestas cum horribili fragore caeli correptos diris fulminibus exussit.
For foragers who had happened to go out, as though some hostile storm had arisen with a horrible crash of the sky, were seized and burned up by dreadful thunderbolts.
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Summary: Lightning killed Roman foragers.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray period): oborta. tempestas → oborta tempestas.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.17 (CSEL 5:209; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.18CSEL 5:209
quippe xxx et IIII eorum idem turbo prostrauit; duo et uiginti semineces relicti, iumenta exanimata et capta conplurima: ut merito contigisse non in signum uastationis futurae sed uastatio ipsa referatur.
For the same whirlwind laid low thirty-four of them; twenty-two were left half-dead; very many beasts of burden were killed and taken: so that it is rightly reported to have happened not as a sign of future devastation but as the devastation itself.
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Summary: The storm was itself a disaster.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.18 (CSEL 5:209; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.19CSEL 5:209
Secunda inter Pyrrhum et Romanos consules pugna in Apuliae finibus fuit. ubi clades belli ad utrosque sed maxime ad Pyrrhum, uictoria ad Romanos concessit.
The second battle between Pyrrhus and the Roman consuls was on the borders of Apulia, where the slaughter of the war fell to both, but especially to Pyrrhus, and the victory to the Romans.
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Summary: Rome won the second battle in Apulia.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): Romano. consules → Romanos consules.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.19 (CSEL 5:209; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.20CSEL 5:209
nam cum diu obnixe cunctis in mutuam caedem ruentibus, anceps belli penderet euentus, Pyrrhus, transfixo bracchio saucius, prior cessit e proelio. sed et Fabricius legatus tunc uulneratus est.
For when for a long time, all rushing stubbornly into mutual slaughter, the outcome of the war hung in doubt, Pyrrhus, wounded with his arm pierced, was the first to leave the battle. But Fabricius the legate was also wounded then.
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Summary: Pyrrhus was wounded and withdrew.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): bracohio → bracchio.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.20 (CSEL 5:209; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.21CSEL 5:209–210
elephanti prima pugna uulnerari atque in fugam cogi posse deprehensi, deinde subiectis inter posteriora ac mollia ignibus exagitati, ardentes insuper machinas furore trepido circumferentes exitio suis fuere.
The elephants, found in the first battle to be capable of being wounded and put to flight, were then goaded by fires placed beneath their hind and soft parts, and, carrying about the burning towers moreover in trembling fury, became the ruin of their own side.
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Summary: Fire turned the elephants against Pyrrhus.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray comma): prima, pugna → prima pugna; posteriora, ac mollia → posteriora ac mollia.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.21 (CSEL 5:209–210; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.22CSEL 5:210
caesa sunt in ea pugna v milia Romanorum, de exercitu uero Pyrrhi xx milia prostrata sunt. regis signa ablata LIII, Romanorum undecim amissa sunt.
In that battle five thousand Romans were slain, but of the army of Pyrrhus twenty thousand were laid low. Fifty-three of the king's standards were taken, eleven of the Romans' lost.
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Summary: Losses at Asculum.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.22 (CSEL 5:210; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.1.23CSEL 5:210
Pyrrhus bello fractus, Agathocle mortuo rege Syracusano ad Siciliae arcessitus imperium Syracusas concessit.
Pyrrhus, broken by the war, when Agathocles, king of Syracuse, had died, was summoned to the rule of Sicily and went to Syracuse.
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Summary: Pyrrhus went to Sicily.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.1.23 (CSEL 5:210; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-1-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Seven 4, chapter 2
4.2.1CSEL 5:210
Sed Romanorum miseria nullis cessat indutiis; consumitur morborum malis intercapedo bellorum et, cum foris cessatur a proelio, agitur introrsum ira.
But the misery of the Romans ceases with no truces; the interval between wars is consumed by the evils of diseases, and when there is a pause from battle abroad, anger is at work within
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Summary: Rome's misery never paused.
- The sentence continues in 4.2.2.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.1 (CSEL 5:210; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2.2CSEL 5:210
de caelo. nam Fabio Gurgite iterum C. Genucio Clepsina consulibus pestilentia grauis Vrbem ac fines eius inuasit; quae cum omnes tum praecipue mulieres pecudesque corripiens necatis in utero fetibus futura prole uacuabat, et immaturis partubus cum periculo matrum extorti abortus proiciebantur, adeo ut defectura successio et defuturum animantum genus adempto uitalis partus legitimo ordine crederetur.
from heaven. For in the consulship of Fabius Gurges for the second time and Gaius Genucius Clepsina, a grave pestilence attacked the City and its territory; seizing all, but especially women and cattle, it emptied them of future offspring by killing the young in the womb, and forced abortions were cast out in premature births with danger to the mothers, so that it was believed the succession would fail and the race of living things would cease, the lawful order of life-giving birth being taken away.
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Summary: A plague killed unborn young.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): pestilentia granis → pestilentia grauis.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.2 (CSEL 5:210; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2.3CSEL 5:210
Interea reuersum ex Sicilia Pyrrhum Curius consul excepit, tertiumque id bellum contra Epirotas apud Lucaniam in Arusinis campis gestum est.
Meanwhile the consul Curius met Pyrrhus on his return from Sicily, and this third war against the Epirotes was waged in Lucania, in the Arusinian plains.
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Summary: The third battle with Pyrrhus.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.3 (CSEL 5:210; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2.4CSEL 5:210–211
itaque primo concursu cum Pyrrhi milites Romanorum inpressione trepidarent et circumspectantes fugam bello cedere molirentur, Pyrrhus elephantos ex subsidiis iussit induci.
So when at the first clash Pyrrhus's soldiers trembled at the Romans' charge and, looking about for flight, were trying to yield the battle, Pyrrhus ordered the elephants to be brought in from the reserves.
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Summary: Pyrrhus sent in the elephants.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): concursu eum Pyrrhi → concursu cum Pyrrhi.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.4 (CSEL 5:210–211; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2.5CSEL 5:211
Romani, adsueti iam pugnare cum beluis, cum malleolos stuppa inuolutos ac pice oblitos uncis insuper aculeis tenaces praeparauissent eosque flammatos in terga beluarum turresque uibrarent, non difficile furentes ardentesque beluas in eorum excidia, quorum subsidia fuerant, retorserunt.
The Romans, now used to fighting beasts, had prepared fire-darts wrapped in tow and smeared with pitch, made clinging besides with hooked barbs, and, hurling them aflame onto the backs of the beasts and their towers, without difficulty turned the raging and burning beasts back to the destruction of those whose support they had been.
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Summary: Rome turned the elephants with fire-darts.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.5 (CSEL 5:211; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2.6CSEL 5:211
LXXX milia peditum in illo proelio habuisse regem dicunt, equitum uero vi milia. ex his caesa referuntur xxxni milia, capti autem sunt mille trecenti.
They say the king had eighty thousand foot in that battle and six thousand horse. Of these thirty-three thousand are reported slain and thirteen hundred captured.
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Summary: Pyrrhus's losses.
- The numeral is garbled in the digital text (*xxxni*); read as XXXIII.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): equitum nero → equitum uero.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.6 (CSEL 5:211; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2.7CSEL 5:211
Pyrrhus quinto demum anno, quam uenerat, ab Italia uictus aufugit. qui post multa grauissimaque bella, quae gessit, in Graecia apud Argos Achaiae florentissimam urbem, Spartani regni auiditate seductus, saxo ictus occubuit.
Pyrrhus at last, in the fifth year after he had come, fled from Italy defeated. After many most grievous wars which he waged, he fell in Greece at Argos, a most flourishing city of Achaia, struck by a stone, led astray by greed for the Spartan kingdom.
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Summary: Pyrrhus left Italy and died at Argos.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.7 (CSEL 5:211; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2.8CSEL 5:211–212
Tunc quoque apud Romanos Sextilia uirgo Vestalis conuicta damnataque incesti ad portam Collinam uiua defossa est.
Then too among the Romans Sextilia, a Vestal Virgin, convicted and condemned of incest, was buried alive at the Colline Gate.
Notes and citation
Summary: A Vestal was buried alive.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): Tune quoque → Tunc quoque.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.2.8 (CSEL 5:211–212; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-2-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Seven 4, chapter 3
4.3.1CSEL 5:212
Anno ab Vrbe condita CCCCLXXV Tarentini Pyrrhi morte conperta iterum noua aduersum Romanos arma sollicitant, Carthaginiensium auxilia per legatos poscunt atque accipiunt.
In the 475th year from the founding of the City the Tarentines, learning of Pyrrhus's death, again stirred up new arms against the Romans, and asked for and received help from the Carthaginians through envoys.
Notes and citation
Summary: Tarentum sought Carthaginian help.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.3.1 (CSEL 5:212; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.3.2CSEL 5:212
conserto proelio uicere Romani: ubi iam tunc Carthaginienses, quamuis nondum hostes adiudicati, uinci tamen a Romanis se posse senserunt.
Battle was joined and the Romans won; in which the Carthaginians even then, though not yet judged enemies, felt that they could be defeated by the Romans.
Notes and citation
Summary: Carthage learned it could be beaten.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.3.2 (CSEL 5:212; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.3.3CSEL 5:212
Sequenti anno magnam uiscerum suorum partem seueritas Romana concidit.
In the following year Roman severity cut down a great part of its own vitals.
Notes and citation
Summary: Rome destroyed one of its own legions.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slips): magnam uiacemm suorum partam → magnam uiscerum suorum partem.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.3.3 (CSEL 5:212; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.3.4CSEL 5:212
nam aduentante dudum Pyrrho octaua legio diffidens Romanae spei, nouum scelus ausa Reginenses omnes, quibus subsidio praeerat, interfecit, praedam sibi omnem atque ipsum oppidum uindicauit.
For long before, when Pyrrhus was approaching, the eighth legion, distrusting Roman hope, dared a new crime: it killed all the people of Rhegium, whom it was guarding as a garrison, and claimed all the plunder and the town itself for itself.
Notes and citation
Summary: A legion massacred Rhegium.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.3.4 (CSEL 5:212; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-3-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.3.5CSEL 5:212–213
hoc facinus in tam sceleratos defectores puniendum Genucio consuli iussum est qui obsessa Reginorum urbe captisque omnibus ipse quidem in reliquos perfugas et latrones exercuit digna supplicia, Romanos uero milites integrae legionis Romam misit: qui populi iussu medio in foro uirgis caesi sunt securique percussi.
The punishment of this crime against such wicked rebels was ordered to the consul Genucius, who, having besieged the city of Rhegium and captured all, himself exacted fitting punishments from the other deserters and robbers, but sent the Roman soldiers of the whole legion to Rome; by order of the people they were beaten with rods in the middle of the forum and struck with the axe.
Notes and citation
Summary: The legion was executed in the Forum.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.3.5 (CSEL 5:212–213; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-3-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.3.6CSEL 5:213
Visa sibi est tunc Roma uincere, cum legionem suam integram occidit, quae sine dubio uicta fuisset, si eam hostili proelio perdidisset.
Rome seemed to itself then to conquer, when it killed its own whole legion, which would doubtless have been reckoned conquered if it had lost it in battle with an enemy.
Notes and citation
Summary: Rome counted the killing of its own legion a victory.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray comma): perdidisset., → perdidisset..
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.3.6 (CSEL 5:213; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-3-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Seven 4, chapter 4
4.4.1CSEL 5:213
Anno ab Vrbe condita CCCCLXXVIII obscena et dira prodigia uel uisa Romae uel nuntiata sunt. aedes Salutis ictu fulminis dissoluta, pars muri sub eodem loco de caelo, ut dicunt, tacta est.
In the 478th year from the founding of the City foul and dreadful portents were either seen at Rome or reported. The temple of Salus was broken up by a stroke of lightning; part of the wall beneath the same place was, as they say, struck from heaven.
Notes and citation
Summary: Portents at Rome.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slips): obseena et dira prodi gia → obscena et dira prodigia.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.4.1 (CSEL 5:213; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.4.2CSEL 5:213
lupi tres ante lucem ingressi urbem, semesum cadauer intulerunt sparsumque membratim in foro ipsi strepitu hominum exterriti reliquerunt.
Three wolves entering the city before dawn brought in a half-eaten corpse and, scattering it limb by limb in the forum, left it, terrified themselves by the noise of men.
Notes and citation
Summary: Wolves brought a corpse into the Forum.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.4.2 (CSEL 5:213; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.4.3CSEL 5:213
apud Formias multis ictibus fulminum moenia undique ambusta et dissoluta sunt.
At Formiae the walls were burned on every side and broken up by many strokes of lightning.
Notes and citation
Summary: Lightning struck Formiae.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.4.3 (CSEL 5:213; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.4.4CSEL 5:213–214
apud agrum Calenum repente flamma scisso hiatu terrae eructata tribus diebus tribusque noctibus terribiliter exaestuans, quinque agri iugera exhausto penitus suco ubertatis in cinerem extorruit, ita ut non fruges solum sed et arbores cum imis stirpibus absumpsisse referatur.
In the territory of Cales a flame suddenly belched forth from a split chasm of the earth, seething terribly for three days and three nights, and scorched five iugera of land to ash, its fertile sap wholly drained, so that it is reported to have consumed not only crops but even trees with their deepest roots.
Notes and citation
Summary: A fire burst from the earth near Cales.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): apud agmm → apud agrum; ingera → iugera.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.4.4 (CSEL 5:213–214; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-4-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.4.5CSEL 5:214
Sequenti abhinc anno Sempronius consul aduersum Picentes duxit exercitum. et cum directae intra iactum teli utraque acies constitissent, repente ita cum horrendo fragore terra tremuit, ut stupore miraculi utrumque pauefactum agmen hebesceret.
In the following year the consul Sempronius led an army against the Picentes. And when both lines, drawn up, had halted within a spear's throw, suddenly the earth shook with so horrible a crash that both columns, terrified by the astonishment of the marvel, were stunned.
Notes and citation
Summary: An earthquake struck before a battle.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.4.5 (CSEL 5:214; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-4-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.4.6CSEL 5:214
diu attoniti utrimque populi haesitauere praeiudicata incepti conscientia; tandem procursu concito iniere certamen.
For a long time the astonished peoples on both sides hesitated, with an awareness that their undertaking had been prejudged; at last, with a swift charge, they entered the battle.
Notes and citation
Summary: At last they fought.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): praeindieata → praeiudicata.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.4.6 (CSEL 5:214; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-4-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.4.7CSEL 5:214
triste adeo id bellum fuit, ut merito dicatur tantum humanum sanguinem susceptura etiam cum gemitu horrisono tunc terra tremuisse. Romani pauci admodum eo proelio qui euasere uicerunt.
That war was so sad that it may rightly be said that the earth, about to receive so much human blood, then trembled with a horrible groan. The Romans, very few of whom escaped in that battle, conquered.
Notes and citation
Summary: The few surviving Romans won.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.4.7 (CSEL 5:214; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-4-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Seven 4, chapter 5
4.5.1CSEL 5:214–215
Anno ab Vrbe condita CCCCLXXX inter multa prodigia sanguis e terra, lac uisum est manare de caelo. nam et plurimis locis scaturiens e fontibus cruor fluxit et de nubibus guttatim in speciem pluuiae lacte demisso, diri, ut ipsis uisum est, terram imbres inrigauerunt.
In the 480th year from the founding of the City, among many portents, blood was seen to flow from the earth and milk from the sky. For in very many places gore welled up from springs and flowed, and from the clouds, milk coming down drop by drop like rain, dreadful showers, as it seemed to them, watered the earth.
Notes and citation
Summary: Blood and milk portents.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.1 (CSEL 5:214–215; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.5.2CSEL 5:215
eo tempore Carthaginienses dato aduersum Romanos auxilio Tarentinis, cum a senatu per legatos arguerentur, turpissimam rupti foederis labem praesumpto accumulauere peiurio. Tunc etiam Vulsinienses, Etruscorum florentissimi, luxurie paene perierunt.
At that time the Carthaginians, having given help to the Tarentines against the Romans, when they were rebuked by the senate through envoys, heaped upon the most shameful stain of a broken treaty a perjury committed in advance. Then too the Volsinians, most flourishing of the Etruscans, almost perished from luxury.
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Summary: Carthage perjured itself; Volsinii nearly fell through luxury.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray period): auxilio. Tarentinis → auxilio Tarentinis.
Topics: Oaths
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.2 (CSEL 5:215; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.5.3CSEL 5:215
nam cum, licentia in consuetudinem prorogata, seruos suos passim liberos facerent, conuiuiis allegarent, coniugiis honestarent:
For when, licence having been extended into custom, they freed their slaves indiscriminately, admitted them to banquets and honoured them with marriages,
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Summary: Volsinii freed its slaves freely.
Topics: Slavery
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.3 (CSEL 5:215; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.5.4CSEL 5:215
libertini in partem potestatis recepti plenitudinem per scelus usurpare meditati sunt et liberati seruitutis iugo, ambitu dominationis arserunt et quos dominos subditi aequanimiter dilexerunt, eos iam liberi, quod dominos fuisse meminerant, exsecrati sunt.
the freedmen, received into a share of power, planned to seize its fullness by crime; and, freed from the yoke of slavery, they burned with ambition for domination; and those whom, as subjects, they had loved with equanimity as masters, now as free men they cursed because they remembered they had been their masters.
Notes and citation
Summary: The freedmen plotted to take power.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (hyphenation and stray mark): serui-: tutis → seruitutis.
Topics: Slavery
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.4 (CSEL 5:215; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.5.5CSEL 5:215–216
itaque conspirantes in facinus libertini — quorum tanta manus fuit, ut sine controuersia auso potirentur — correptam urbem suo tantum generi uindicant, patrimonia coniugiaque dominorum sibi per scelus usurpant, extorres dominos procul abigunt, qui miseri, exules egentesque Romam deferuntur: ubi ostentata miseria querellaque defleta, per Romanorum seueritatem et uindicati sunt et restituti.
So the freedmen, conspiring in crime (so great was their band that they gained their daring without contest), seized the city and claimed it for their kind alone, usurped by crime the estates and wives of their masters, and drove the masters far off as exiles; and these wretched men, exiles and destitute, were brought to Rome, where, having displayed their misery and wept their complaint, they were both avenged and restored through Roman severity.
Notes and citation
Summary: The freedmen seized Volsinii; Rome restored the masters.
Topics: Slavery
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.5 (CSEL 5:215–216; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.5.6CSEL 5:216
Anno ab Vrbe condita CCCCLXXXI pestilentia ingens apud Romam conflagrauit, cuius atrocitatem significare contentus sum, quia uerbis inplere non possum.
In the 481st year from the founding of the City a huge pestilence blazed up at Rome, whose atrocity I am content to indicate, because I cannot fill it out in words.
Notes and citation
Summary: A great plague struck Rome.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.6 (CSEL 5:216; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.5.7CSEL 5:216
si enim spatium temporis quo mansit inquiritur, ultra biennium uastando porrecta est; si depopulatio quam egerit, census indictus est, qui non quantum hominum deperisset, sed quantum superfuisset, inquireret; si uiolentia qua adfecerit, Sibyllini libri testes sunt, qui eam caelesti ira inpositam responderunt.
For if the length of time it lasted is asked, it stretched on ravaging for more than two years; if the depopulation it caused, a census was ordered to inquire not how many men had perished but how many had survived; if the violence with which it struck, the Sibylline books are witnesses, which answered that it had been imposed by heavenly anger.
Notes and citation
Summary: The plague lasted two years and was blamed on heavenly anger.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.7 (CSEL 5:216; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.5.8CSEL 5:216–217
sed, ne quemquam quasi temptatio cauillationis offendat, quod, cum Sibylla iratos deos dixerit, nos iram caelestem dixisse uideamur, audiat et intellegat, quia haec, etsi plerumque per aerias potestates fiunt, tamen sine arbitrio omnipotentis Dei omnino non fiunt.
But lest it offend anyone, as a temptation to quibbling, that when the Sibyl said the gods were angry we seem to have said heavenly anger, let him hear and understand that these things, even if they are mostly done through aerial powers, are nevertheless not done at all without the judgment of almighty God.
Eph 2:2 (echo, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Even demonic powers act only by God's permission.
- 'Aerial powers' are demons; cf. Eph 2:2.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): qaemquam → quemquam.
Topics: The devil and demons, Providence
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.8 (CSEL 5:216–217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.5.9CSEL 5:217
Eodem tempore Caparronia uirgo Vestalis incesti rea suspendio periit: corrupter eius consciique serui supplicio adfecti sunt.
At the same time Caparronia, a Vestal Virgin, accused of incest, died by hanging; her seducer and the slaves privy to it were punished.
Notes and citation
Summary: A Vestal hanged herself.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): snspendio → suspendio.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.9 (CSEL 5:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.5.10CSEL 5:217
Ecce continuatim quae et quanta numeramus accidisse annis singulis plurima, inter quos certe rari aut paene nullo nihil triste gestum, et hoc, cum idem scriptores proposito sibi magis laudandi negotio cauerent numerositates miseriarum,
See how many and how great things we enumerate as having happened continuously, very many in single years, in which rarely or almost never was nothing sad done; and this although the same writers, having set themselves rather the task of praising, avoided the multitude of miseries,
Notes and citation
Summary: Almost every year had its disaster, even in writers bent on praise.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip n for u): canerent → cauerent.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.10 (CSEL 5:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.5.11CSEL 5:217
ne eosdem quibus haec et de quibus scribebantur offenderent auditoresque suos exemplis praeteritorum terrere potius quam instituere uiderentur.
lest they offend those for whom and about whom these things were written, and seem to terrify rather than instruct their hearers by examples from the past.
Notes and citation
Summary: They did not wish to offend their readers.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.11 (CSEL 5:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.5.12CSEL 5:217
porro autem nos in ultimo temporum positi mala Romanorum scire non possumus nisi per eos, qui laudauere Romanos.
Moreover, we, placed at the last of the times, cannot know the evils of the Romans except through those who praised the Romans.
Notes and citation
Summary: We know Rome's evils only from its admirers.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (digitization slip): porro antem → porro autem.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.12 (CSEL 5:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).
4.5.13CSEL 5:217
ex quo intellegi datur, quanta illa fuerint quae studio propter horrorem repressa sunt, cum tanta inueniuntur quae tenuiter inter laudes emanare potuerunt.
From this it may be understood how great were the things deliberately suppressed because of their horror, when such great things are found that could slip out faintly amid the praises.
Notes and citation
Summary: What they suppressed must have been worse still.
Cite (SBL): Orosius, Hist. 4.5.13 (CSEL 5:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/orosius-historiae/4-5-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Zangemeister, CSEL 5 (1882), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; Zangemeister's square brackets treated as deletions), then compared with the copyrighted translation in Fathers of the Church 50 (Deferrari; private error-checking only, nothing copied).