Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXXI, chapter 5, section 13

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[13] Again, when Marcus was ruling the empire, the united madness of different tribes, after endless alarms of war, after the woes of captured and plundered cities, after the destruction of forces shaken by the death of their able leader, ¹ would have left only a small part of them unscathed. ²

1 Macrinus Vindex, praetorian prefect of Marcus Aurelius; see Dio, lxxi. 3.

2 Text and exact meaning are uncertain; for the events referred to, see Dio, lxxi. ff.; Eutrop. viii. 13; Orosius, vii. 15, 6 ff.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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