Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, BOOK XXIV, chapter 5, section 10

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[10] The emperor, roused to bitter anger, reduced the surviving members of the cohort, who had shown no spirit ¹ in resisting the marauders' attack, to the infantry service ² (which is more burdensome) with loss of rank.

1 Cf. egere segnius, § 9, above.

2 cohors is commonly used of the infantry, but Ammi- anus probably refers to the horsemen mingled with the foot-soldiers, who may have been most to blame. Vegetius tells us that each cohort had its horsemen.

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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