Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXVI, chapter 9, section 2

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[2] Having safely garrisoned this place in order to suffer no surprise in those parts, he marched along the foot of the lofty mountain called Olympus, ¹ and over rocky paths, towards Lycia, planning to attack Gomoarius, while [p. 635] he loitered there half asleep, ²

1 In Galatia.

2 Literally, “yawning”; for oscitantem in this sense, cf. xviii. 6, 8; Terence, Andr. 181; Cic., De Nat. Deo. i. 72.

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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