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Quotation from The Roman History by Ammianus Marcellinus

“a cavalry spear, grazing the skin of his arm, pierced his side, and fixed itself in the bottom of his liver.”

Ammianus Marcellinus

The Roman History, Book XXV, ch. 3.6, trans. C. D. Yonge (1862)

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Julian, riding without his breastplate, is struck while urging his men to pursue the Persians.

Citation: "a cavalry spear, grazing the skin of his arm, pierced his side, and fixed itself in the bottom of his liver." — Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History, Book XXV, ch. 3.6, trans. C. D. Yonge (1862). (id ammianus-marcellinus-roman-history-q5)

Portrait: Ammianus Marcellinus 1533, Title page of the 1533 Augsburg edition, Public domain.

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