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Roman troops enslave thousands of Helvetii.

Related Conflict :Roman campaign against the Helvetii
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Roman Army of Vitellius Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Origin: Helvetii, Age: mixed, Activity: mixed, Reaction: flight, Direct Consequence: enslavement
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Cornelius Tacitus, Histories 1.68 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Provincia Germania Superior (Upper Germania)
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 1
    Year :A.D. 69
     
    Context :war/military campaign
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
    economical
    Long-Term Consequence :capture
     
    Original Text :ac statim immissa cohorte Thraecum depulsi et consectantibus Germanis Raetisque per silvas atque in ipsis latebris trucidati. multa hominum milia caesa, multa sub corona venundata.
     
    Translation :They were immediately dislodged by the attack of some Thracian infantry. Closely pursued by the Germans and Rhætians they were cut down in their forests and even in their hiding places. Thousands were put to the sword, thousands more were sold into slavery.
     
    Edition :Historiae. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1911.

    Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. 1873. reprinted 1942.
     
     
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    Created at :2020-11-29 : 01:11:58
    Last changed :2020-12-07 : 09:35:14
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00006756
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