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οἱ Κελτοὶ τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἐκ δευτέρου ἐπιστρατεύσαντες τὴν χώραν τὴν Ἀλβανὴν ἐπόρθουν: ἔνθα μὲν πολλῆς ἅπαντες ἐδωδῆς ἐμπιμπλάμενοι, πολὺν δὲ πίνοντες ἄκρατον οἶνον — ἔστι δὲ ὁ τῇδε φυόμενος μετὰ τὸν Φαλερινὸν ἥδιστος οἴνων μελικράτῳ μάλιστα προσεμφερής — ὕπνον τε πλείονα τοῦ συνήθους αἱρούμενοι καὶ δίαιταν ὑπὸ σκιαῖς ὡς τὰ πολλὰ ἔχοντες τοσαύτην ἔλαβον ἐπίδοσιν εἰς πολυσαρκίαν τε καὶ ἁπαλότητα καὶ οὕτως ἐξεθηλύνθησαν τὰς δυνάμεις, [p. 253] ὥσθ᾽, ὁπότε γυμνάζειν ἐπιβάλοιντο τὰ σώματα καὶ διαπονεῖν ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις, κόπτεσθαι μὲν ἄσθματι συνεχεῖ τὰ πνεύματα, ῥεῖσθαι δ᾽ ἱδρῶτι πολλῷ τὰ μέλη, θᾶττον δὲ ἀφίστασθαι τῶν πόνων ἢ κελευσθεῖεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἡγεμόνων. Ambr.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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