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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · siege and fortification · severity after victory · philippopolis siege · marcellus · crime and punishment
Usually: narrative (1) · the fall of the great (1) · indignation (1)
“For amid arms and trumpets the equality of every one's chance makes danger seem lighter; and often the might of martial valour obtains what it aims at.” Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus · insight
Marcellus kills the imprisoned Serenianus, then is defeated and executed after his usurpation; the war ends, Procopius’s head is sent west, and Procopius’s former opponents face harsh sentences.
by pleading his relationship to Constantine, would at a small cost be easily won over to support him, and also because he was ignorant of what had happened in Illyricum. 4. While these alarming events were taking place, Equitius, having learnt by trustworthy reports from his scouts that the whole stress of the war was now to be found in Asia, passed through the Succi, and made a vigorous attempt to take Philippopoli…