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Mazippa with lights troops slaughters and burns in Africa.

Related Conflict :Tacfarinas' revolt
Perpetrator (Person) :
  • Mazippa Origin: Moors Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler
Perpetrator (Group) :
  • Origin: Moors Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: soldier
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    Level :intersocial
    Source :Cornelius Tacitus, Annals 2.52 Paste CTS-Link
    Time Periode :Roman Empire
    Century :A.D. 1
    Year :A.D. 17
     
    Context :revolt
    plunder
    Motivation :tactical/strategical
    economical
    Long-Term Consequence :campaign
    battle
     
    Original Text :divisusque exercitus, ut Tacfarinas lectos viros et Romanum in modum armatos castris attineret, disciplina et imperiis suesceret, Mazippa levi cum copia incendia et caedis et terrorem circumferret.
     
    Translation :The army was so divided that Tacfarinas kept the picked men who were armed in Roman fashion within a camp, and familiarised them with a commander's authority, while Mazippa, with light troops, spread around him fire, slaughter, and consternation.
     
    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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    Created at :2024-03-17 : 11:56:43
    Last changed :2024-03-28 : 09:15:50
    MyCoRe ID :Antiquity_violence_00014337
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