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τῇ δ᾽ ἐπιούσῃ νυκτὶ ψόφος τ᾽ ἠκούετο πολὺς ἐκ τοῦ χάρακος τῶν Ἑρνίκων καὶ βοή, καὶ πολλὰ ἐφαίνετο σέλα λαμπάδων. ἀπογνόντες γὰρ ἔτι ἀνθέξειν ἑτέρᾳ μάχῃ καταλιπεῖν τὸν χάρακα ἔγνωσαν αὐτοκέλευστοι: καὶ τὸ ποιῆσαν αὐτῶν τὴν ἀταξίαν καὶ βοὴν τοῦτ᾽ ἦν. ὡς γὰρ ἕκαστοι δυνάμεως εἶχον καὶ τάχους, ἔφευγον ἐπιβοῶντές τ᾽ ἀλλήλους καὶ ἐπιβοώμενοι, τῶν δ᾽ ὑπολειπομένων διὰ τραύματα ἢ νόσους [p. 224] [2] οἰμωγὰς καὶ λιτανείας ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ τιθέμενοι. τοῦτ ἀγνοοῦντες οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι, πεπυσμένοι δὲ παρὰ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων πρότερον, ὅτι δύναμις Ἑρνίκων ἑτέρα μέλλοι βοηθὸς ἥξειν τοῖς σφετέροις, καὶ τὴν βοήν τε καὶ ταραχὴν ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκείνων ἀφίξει γεγονέναι νομίζοντες, τά τ᾽ ὅπλα ἀνέλαβον καὶ τὸν χάρακα περιστεφανώσαντες, μή τις ἔφοδος αὐτοῖς γένοιτο νύκτωρ, τοτὲ μὲν ὅπλων κτύπον ἐποίουν ἀθρόοι, τοτὲ δ᾽ ὥσπερ εἰς
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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