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Object Metadata
| Related Conflict : | Roman Campaign against rebelling thracian tribes. |
| Perpetrator (Group) : |
Roman Army of Tiberius Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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| Victim (Person) : |
Dinis Origin: Thracian, Age: old, Activity: monarch/ruler, Reaction: surrender, Direct Consequence: capture
Tarsa Origin: Thracian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: grief, Direct Consequence: death
Turesis Origin: Thracian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: attack
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| Victim (Group) : |
Thracian Rebels Origin: Thracian, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Reaction: surrender, Direct Consequence: capture
Thracian Rebels Origin: Thracian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: grief, Direct Consequence: death
Thracian Rebels Origin: Thracian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Reaction: attack
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| Third Party (Person) : |
Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus Origin: Roman, Age: adult, Activity: commander/general
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| Level : | intersocial |
| Source : | Cornelius Tacitus, Annals 4.49-50Cornelius Tacitus Annals 4.49-50 Paste CTS-Link |
| Location : | Haemus Mons (Balkan Mountains) |
| Time Periode : | Roman Empire |
| Century : | A.D. 1 |
| Year : | A.D. 26 |
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| Context : | war/military campaign
siege |
| Motivation : | tactical/strategical |
| Long-Term Consequence : | victory |
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| Original Text : | Rebusque turbatis malum extremum discordia accessit, his deditionem aliis mortem et mutuos inter se ictus parantibus; et erant qui non inultum exitium sed eruptionem suaderent. neque ignobiles tantum his diversi sententiis, verum e ducibus Dinis, provectus senecta et longo usu vim atque clementiam Romanam edoctus, ponenda arma, unum adflictis id remedium disserebat, primusque se cum coniuge et liberis victori permisit: secuti aetate aut sexu imbecilli et quibus maior vitae quam gloriae cupido. at iuventus Tarsam inter et Turesim distrahebatur. utrique destinatum cum libertate occidere, sed Tarsa properum finem, abrumpendas pariter spes ac metus clamitans, dedit exemplum demisso in pectus ferro; nec defuere qui eodem modo oppeterent. |
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| Translation : | One of their chiefs, Dinis, an old man who well knew by long experience both the strength and clemency of Rome, maintained that they must lay down their arms, this being the only remedy for their wretched plight, and he was the first to give himself up with his wife and children to the conqueror. He was followed by all whom age or sex unfitted for war, by all too who had a stronger love of life than of renown. The young were divided between Tarsa and Turesis both of whom had resolved to fall together with their freedom. Tarsa however kept urging them to speedy death and to the instant breaking off of all hope and fear, and, by way of example, plunged his sword into his heart. And there were some who chose the same death. |
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| Edition : | Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942. |
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| Remark : | titel: The conditions inside the rebel fortress are described by Tacitus: "It was thirst however which chiefly distressed them, for there was only one spring for the use of a vast multitude of soldiers and non-combatants. Their cattle too, penned up close to them, after the fashion of barbarians, were dying of want of fodder; near them lay human bodies which had perished from wounds or thirst, and the whole place was befouled with rotting carcases and stench and infection. To their confusion was added the growing misery of discord, some thinking of surrender, others of destruction by mutual blows. Some there were who suggested a sortie instead of an unavenged death, and these were all men of spirit, though they differed in their plans. (Tac.Ann.4.49)" |
| Notes : | The remaining Thracian rebels stage a desperate counterattack, for it and their fate please refer to: "Thracian rebels attack Roman besiegers in the night, throwing stones and logs." |
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| Created at : | 2020-11-05 : 09:40:17 |
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| MyCoRe ID : | Antiquity_violence_00006325 |
| Static URL : | https://ml-s-eris.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/receive/Antiquity_violence_00006325 |
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