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The defenders of Hatra throw burning Naphtha to inflict many losses on the army of Septimius Severus.

Related Conflict :Siege of Hatra
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Defenders of Hatra Origin: Arabian, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Victim (Group) :
  • Roman Army of Septimius Severus Origin: Mixed, Age: adult, Activity: soldier, Direct Consequence: losses
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    Third Party (Person) :
  • Lucius Septimius Severus Origin: Roman, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Lucius Cassius Dio, Roman History 76.11.4 Paste CTS-Link
    Location :Hatra (Hatra)
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 2
    Year :A.D. 198
     
    Context :war/military campaign
    siege
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
    Application :throwing down
    burning
    Weapon :boiling/burning liquid
    Long-Term Consequence :siege
    retreat
     
    Original Text :πλεῖστον δὲ ὅμως ἐκάκωσαν αὐτοὺς ἐπειδὴ τῷ τείχει προσέμιξαν, καὶ πολὺ πλεῖον ἐπεὶ καὶ διέρρηξάν τι αὐτοῦ: τά τε γὰρ ἄλλα καὶ τὸ νάφθα τὸ ἀσφαλτῶδες ἐκεῖνο, περὶ οὗ ἄνω μοι γέγραπται, ἀφιέντες σφίσι τά τε μηχανήματα καὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας πάντας, οἷς ἐπεβλήθη, κατέπρησαν.
     
    Translation :But they inflicted the greatest damage on their assailants when these approached the wall, and much more still after they had broken down a small portion of it; for they hurled down upon them, among things, the bituminous naphtha, of which I wrote above, and consumed the engines and all the soldiers on whom it fell.
     
    Edition :Dio's Roman History. Cassius Dio Cocceianus. Earnest Cary. Herbert Baldwin Foster. William Heinemann, Harvard University Press. London; New York. 1914-.
     
     
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    Created at :2021-04-05 : 09:09:20
    Last changed :2021-04-05 : 10:03:53
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00008801
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