1Amid the perils of great men, shameful to tell, a certain Mariccus, one of the common people of the Boii, dared to thrust himself into fortune and challenge the arms of Rome by feigning divine power. 1And already, as liberator of the Gauls and a god (for he had given himself that title), having roused eight thousand men, he was drawing the nearest villages of the Aedui after him, when that most weighty community, with a picked band of its young men and cohorts added by Vitellius, scattered the fanatical multitude. 1Mariccus was captured in that battle; 1and soon, when he was thrown to the beasts and was not torn apart, the stupid mob believed him invulnerable, until he was put to death while Vitellius looked on.
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Tacitus · Historiae II
Histories 2.65
The rebellion of Mariccus
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Tacitus, Historiae II. Latin text: C. D. Fisher, Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Libri (Oxford, 1911), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.