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On Crassus: Text and Manuscripts

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Iste crassus omne fere aurum templi quo pompeius abstinuerat, insumptum partice militie, tulit, unde auro in os infuso interiit.
This Crassus plundered almost all the gold from the temple (which Pompey had left), to pay his army, and died from gold being poured into his mouth.

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Image excerpts from the manuscripts (as grouped by main graph versions) are the result of tool-based image annotation (via Cadmus) or manual extraction. For each manuscript version only these visually annotated manuscripts are listed here. For the grouping of all manuscripts we provide a separate list (Manuscript groups). Transcriptions are semi-diplomatic following project specific rules.

Version

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 29 (C2)

Iste crassus omne fere aurum templj quo
pompeius abstinuerat insumptum partice
militie tulit. unde auro in os infuso interijt.


Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

Iste crassus omne fere aurum templi
quo pompeium abstinuerat insumptum par
tice milicie tulit. Unde auro
in os suffuso interiit.

Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 145 (Ax)

Manuscript group FR2

Iste crassus omne fere au
rum templi quo pompeius
abstinuerat. insumptum
partice milicie tulit. Unde
auro in os infuso interiit.

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.5 (C)

Manuscript group GB6

Iste crassus omne fere aurum templi quo pompeius
abstinuerat insumptum partite militie tulit. Unde
auro in os infuso interiit.


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Citation recommendation

On Crassus: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-crassus.

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