rēbus ita gestīs, castra in rādicibus[1] Amānī habuimus apud Ārās Alexandrī quadrīduum, et in reliquiīs[2] Amānī dēlendīs agrīsque vāstandīs[3], quae pars eius montis meae prōvinciae est[4], id tempus omne cōnsūmpsimus.
Cōnfectīs hīs rēbus, ad oppidum Eleutherocilicum Pindenissum[5] exercitum addūxī. Quod cum esset[6] altissimō et mūnītissimō locō, ab iīsque incolerētur[7], quī[8] nē rēgibus[9] quidem umquam pāruissent, cum et fugitīvōs[10] reciperent, et Parthōrum adventum acerrimē exspectārent, ad exīstimātiōnem[11] imperī[12] pertinēre arbitrātus sum comprimere[13] eōrum audāciam, quō[14] facilius etiam cēterōrum animī, quī aliēnī essent ab imperiō[15] nostrō, frangerentur.
Vāllō et fossā circumdedī[16], sex castellīs castrīsque maximīs saepsī[17], aggere, vīneīs, turribus oppugnāvī, ūsusque tor-
- ↑ rādicibus: f, foothills, (rādīx, -īcis, F., lit. root).
- ↑ reliquiīs: i.e. the remaining landmarks; cf. reliquiās, p. 36, l. 15.
- ↑ vāstandīs: vāstō, 1: lay waste.
- ↑ quae pars eius montis meae prōvinciae est: i.e. in eam montis partem, quae meae prōvinciae est, belongs to (lit. is of) my province.
- ↑ Pindenissum: in apposition with oppidum. The exact location of this town is not known.
- ↑ quod cum esset: since this was (located).
- ↑ incolerētur:.
- ↑ quī: with subjunctive, such (people) as.
- ↑ rēgibus: namely, of their own.
- ↑ fugitīvōs: fugitīvus, -ī: m, runaway slave.
- ↑ exīstimātiōnem: exīstimātiō, -ōnis: f, prestige.
- ↑ imperī: n, (our) government.
- ↑ comprimere: comprimō, 3, -pressī, -pressus: put a stop to.
- ↑ quō: note the compar. in the clause, aliēnī . . . ab: ill disposed toward; cf. p. 148, l. 17.
- ↑ imperiō: n, rule.
- ↑ circumdedī: sc. oppidum.
- ↑ saepsī: saepiō, 4, saepsī, saeptus: surround.
