# Ab excessu divi Marci 4.15.4

Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, Book 4, Chapter 15. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/herodian/ab-excessu-divi-marci/4.15.4

πρώτης μὲν οὖν καὶ δευτέρας ἡμέρας ἐξ ἑωθινοῦ ἐς ἑσπέραν ἐμαχέσαντο, καὶ νὺξ ἐπελθοῦσα διέλυσε τὰς μάχας, ἑκάτεροί τε ἐπανῆλθον ἐς τὰ ἑαυτῶν στρατόπεδα νικᾶν ἀξιοῦντες. τῇ δὲ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ συνῆλθον ἐς τὸ αὐτὸ πεδίον μαχούμενοι, ἐπειρῶντο δὲ οἱ μὲν βάρβαροι, πολύ τι τῷ πλήθει τούτων ὑπερέχοντες, κυκλώσασθαι τοὺς Ῥωμαίους καὶ σαγηνεῦσαι: οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι οὐκέτι τὰς φάλαγγας ἐς βάθος συνίστασαν, ἐς μῆκος δ̓ ἐκτείνοντες ἀεὶ τὸ κυκλούμενον

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Herodian, Ab excessu divi Marci, ed. Immanuel Bekker. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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