# Res Gestae 26.8.14

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, Book 26, Chapter 8. Latin.

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Et licet hac ex causa praesumptor momentum pertimesceret grave, tamen, cum obsistente nullo se in orientales provincias effundere libenti cunctorum assensione, iam licentius posset, avidas novitatem quandam visere, taedio asperioris imperii, quo tune tenebantur: erga alliciendas quasdam civitates Asiae legendosque eruendi peritos auri (ut sibi profuturos proeliis, quae magna exspectabat et crebra), segnius commoratus, in modum acuti mucronis obtunsus est.

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