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Quotation from The Roman History by Ammianus Marcellinus
“They never shelter themselves under roofed houses, but avoid them as people ordinarily avoid sepulchres as things not fitted for common use.”
The Roman History, Book XXXI, ch. 2.4, trans. C. D. Yonge (1862)
From the digression on the Huns, the people whose advance drives the Goths to the Danube.
Citation: "They never shelter themselves under roofed houses, but avoid them as people ordinarily avoid sepulchres as things not fitted for common use." — Ammianus Marcellinus, The Roman History, Book XXXI, ch. 2.4, trans. C. D. Yonge (1862). (id ammianus-marcellinus-roman-history-q7)
Portrait: Ammianus Marcellinus 1533, Title page of the 1533 Augsburg edition, Public domain.
