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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 2761758, member: 87200&quot;]Here&#039;s some history from Ammianus, Liber XXV:</p><p><br /></p><p>Julianus, careless of his own safety, shouting and raising his hands tried to make it clear to his men that the enemy had fled in disorder, and, to rouse them to a still more furious pursuit, rushed boldly into the fight. His guards,<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/25*.html#note15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/25*.html#note15" rel="nofollow">15</a> who had scattered in their alarm, were crying to him from all sides to get clear of the mass of fugitives, as dangerous as the fall of a badly built roof, when suddenly — no one knows whence<a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/25*.html#note16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/25*.html#note16" rel="nofollow">16</a>— a cavalryman&#039;s spear grazed the skin of his arm, pierced his ribs, and lodged in the lower lobe of his liver. 7 While he was trying to pluck this out with his right hand, he felt that the sinews of his fingers were cut through on both sides by the sharp steel. Then he fell from his horse, all present hastened to the spot, he was taken to camp and given medical treatment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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