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Posidonius
Fragments on Customs and Wars Carrier unit 110c
Carrier unit 163 of 197
Canonical reference F.110c
Ancient Greek
;;p. 386, 24 (= 6, 2): ἔχων πλῆθος οὐ νεοσύλλογον καὶ φυλῶδες ἀλλὰ τὸ πρακτικώτατον τοῦ δήμου καὶ τοῖς βίοις κάρπιμον. διὸ καὶ τῆς βίας ἐν ἀμφοτέροις τοῖς μέρεσιν ταλαντευομένης καὶ τῆς ῥοπῆς δεῦρο κἀκεῖσε πάλιν ἐκκλινούσης, πολλῶν μυριάδων ἠθροισμένων, τὰ μέρη βιαίως συνίσταντο καὶ καθάπερ ἐν τῆι θαλάττηι κυμάτων φαντασίαι καὶ διαθέσεις ἐγίνοντο κατὰ τὰς τοῦ πλήθους ἐκκλησίας.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-15
p. 386.24 (= 6.2): He had a multitude that was not newly levied and divided by tribe, but consisted of the most active part of the people, men productive in their livelihoods. Accordingly, as the use of force hung in the balance between both parties and the advantage repeatedly inclined now one way and now the other, many tens of thousands gathered, the factions formed themselves through violence, and at the assemblies of the multitude there arose spectacles and shifting dispositions like waves at sea.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-15
p. 386, 24 (= 6, 2) : il avait avec lui une multitude qui n’était ni récemment recrutée ni composée d’un ramassis de tribus, mais qui réunissait les citoyens les plus actifs et les plus productifs par leur travail. Aussi, tandis que la violence oscillait entre les deux camps et que l’avantage penchait tour à tour d’un côté puis de l’autre, plusieurs dizaines de milliers d’hommes s’étant rassemblés, les partis s’affrontaient avec violence et, dans les assemblées populaires, il se produisait des apparences et des mouvements semblables à ceux des vagues sur la mer.
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