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[7] As he was stunned by their first onset, they forced him to take speedy refuge in the steep mountains, after losing a few of their own men. Athanaricus, troubled 1 by this unexpected attack and still more through fear of what might come, had walls built high, skirting the lands of the Taifali from the banks of the river Gerasus 2 as far as the Danube, thinking that by this hastily but diligently constructed barrier 3 his security and safety would be assured.

1 Cf. cura constrictus, xx, 4, 19.

2 To-day the Pruth on the eastern frontier of ancient Dacia.

3 For lorica in this sense, cf. 15, 4, below.

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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