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“ [7] In support of this plan 1 do you, I pray, after the manner of those who trust their leaders, 2 promise under oath your lasting and faithful accord; I for my part will strive diligently and anxiously that nothing be done rashly or with faint heart, and I will show, if any one require it, my conscience clean, in that I will undertake or try nothing willingly except what contributes to the common weal. ”

1 Pighius (see crit. note) takes ut . . . ex more as taut. ology, citing Spart. Hadr. 15, 2; Livy, iv. 2, 4; etc.

2 So Pighius, citing Lucan, ix. 373, and Statius, Theb. vi. 678, for fidens with a genitive.

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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