Orosius

Paulus Orosius (c. 375/385 – 420 AD) less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo. Quotes Seven Books of History Against the Pagans Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII Book II Romae ergo post urbem conditam anno CCLXL suspenso ad modicum bello grauis pestilentia, quae semper ibi raras indutias aut factas intercepit aut ut fierent coegit, per uniuersam ciuitatem uiolenter incanduit, ut merito praecedente prodigio caelum ardere uisum sit, quando caput gentium tanto morborum igne flagrauit. at Rome, then, two hundred and ninety years after the founding of the City, when there was a moderate cessation of war, a severe plague, which always interrupted periods of truce that were rarely made or were forced to be made, raged violently, so that, according to a noteworthy omen which preceded, the sky seemed to be aflame, when the chief City of the nations burned with such a fire of disease. 12.2 (tr. Roy J. Deferrari, 1964) Book IV qui postea, cum in Etruriam primo uere transiret, in summo Appennino tempestate correptus, biduo continuo inmobiliter cum exercitu niuibus conclusus et onustus obriguit. ubi magnus hominum numerus, iumenta conplurima, elephanti paene omnes frigoris acerbitate perierunt. Later in the spring, when Hannibal’s army was crossing over into Etruria and was high in the Apennines, it was overtaken by a storm, shut in fast, and so weighted down by the snow that it could not move. For two continuous days both he and his army remained numb from the cold. A great number of men, many beasts of burden, and almost all the elephants died there from exposure to the wintry blasts. 14.9 (tr. I. W. Raymond, 1936) tunc etiam lex, quae ab Oppio tribuno plebi lata fuerat, ne qua mulier plus quam semunciam auri haberet neue uersicolori uestimento nec uehiculo per urbem uteretur, post uiginti annos abrogata est. At that time, too, the law, that no woman should have more than a half ounce of gold, or should wear a colored garment or use a carriage anywhere in the City, which had been proposed by Oppius, a tribune of the plebs, was repealed after being in force for twenty years. 20.14 (tr. I. W. Raymond, 1936) Book V Fabius consul...adeo cum paruo exercitu occurrit, ut Bituitus paucitatem Romanorum uix ad escam canibus, quos in agmine habebat, sufficere posse iactaret. The army of the consul was so small that Bituitus boasted that the small number of the Romans would scarcely suffice to feed the dogs that were with his army. 14 (tr. I. W. Raymond, 1936) External links Category:Roman Empire Category:Authors from Rome