# Res Gestae 31.1.3-5

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 31.1.3 to 31.1.5. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/ammianus-marcellinus/res-gestae/31.1.3

Quae hunc illi impendere exitum vitae modo non aperte loquendo monstrabant. Super his larvale simulacrum Armeniae regis, et miserabiles umbrae paulo ante in negotio Theodori caesorum, per quietem stridendo carmina quaedam neniarum horrenda, multos diris terroribus agitabant. Vaccula gurgulione consecto, exanimis visa est iacens, cuius mors publicorum funerum aerumnas indicabat amplas et pervulgatas. Denique cum Chalcedonos subverterentur veteres muri, ut apud Constantinopolim aedificaretur lavacrum, ordine resoluto saxorum, in quadrato lapide qui structura latebat in media, hi Graeci versus incisi reperti sunt, futura plene pandentes: ἀλλα’ ὁπόταν νύμφαι δροσεραὶ κατὰ ἄστυ χορείῃ τερπόμεναι στρωφῶνται ἐυστεφέας κατ’ ἀγυιάς, καὶ τεῖχος λουτροῖο πολύστονον ἔσσεται ἄλκαρ, δὴ τότε μυρία φῦλα πολυσπερέων ἀνθρώπων Ἴστρον καλλιρόοιο πόρον περάοντα σὺν αἰχμῇ, καὶ Σκυθικὴν ὀλέσει χώρην καὶ Μυσίδα γαῖαν, Παιονίης δ’ ἐπιβάντα σὺν ἐλπίσι μαινομένῃσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ βιότοιο τέλος καὶ δῆρις ἐφέξει.

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Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, ed. John C. Rolfe. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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