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Denys d'Halicarnasse, Les Antiquités romaines, livre XIV [fragments]

Chapitre 8

  Chapitre 8

[14,8] Οἱ Κελτοὶ τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἐκ δευτέρου ἐπιστρατεύσαντες τὴν χώραν τὴν Ἀλβανὴν ἐπόρθουν· ἔνθα μὲν πολλῆς ἅπαντες ἐδωδῆς ἐμπιμπλάμενοι, πολὺν δὲ πίνοντες ἄκρατον οἶνονἔστι δὲ τῇδε φυόμενος μετὰ τὸν Φαλερινὸν ἥδιστος οἴνων μελικράτῳ μάλιστα προσεμφερήςὕπνον τε πλείονα τοῦ συνήθους αἱρούμενοι καὶ δίαιταν ὑπὸ σκιαῖς ὡς τὰ πολλὰ ἔχοντες τοσαύτην ἔλαβον ἐπίδοσιν εἰς πολυσαρκίαν τε καὶ ἁπαλότητα καὶ οὕτως ἐξεθηλύνθησαν τὰς δυνάμεις, ὥσθ´, ὁπότε γυμνάζειν ἐπιβάλοιντο τὰ σώματα καὶ διαπονεῖν ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις, κόπτεσθαι μὲν ἄσθματι συνεχεῖ τὰ πνεύματα, ῥεῖσθαι δ´ ἱδρῶτι πολλῷ τὰ μέλη, θᾶττον δὲ ἀφίστασθαι τῶν πόνων κελευσθεῖεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἡγεμόνων. [14,8] The Gauls, having made an expedition against Rome for the second time, were plundering the Alban district. There, as all gorged themselves with much food, drank much unmixed wine (the wine produced there is the sweetest of all wines after the Falernian and is the most like hone-wine), took more sleep than was their custom, and spent most of their time in the shade, they gained so rapidly in corpulence and flabbiness and became so womanish in physical strength that whenever they undertook to exercise their bodies and to drill in arms their respiration was broken by continual panting, their limbs were drenched by much sweat, and they desisted from their toils before they were bidden to do so by their commanders.


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