# Res Gestae 21.12.8

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, Book 21, Chapter 12. Latin.

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Contra munitores licet pavore discriminum anxii, pudore tamen ne secordes viderentur et segnes, ubi parum vis procedebat, Marte aperto temptata, ad instrumenta obsidionalium artium transtulerunt. Et quia nec arietibus admovendis, nec ad intemptandas machinas vel ut possint forari cuniculi, inveniebatur locus usquam habilis, disparatione brevi civitatem Natisone amni praeterlabente, commentum excogitatum est cum veteribus admirandum.

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