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The last night march that the troops of Marcus Antonius conducted as they were returning from Media, was the worst and most terrifying, for although the Parthians did not molest them, those who carried silver or gold were attacked and their dead bodies stripped, the money and the beasts of burden were also taken and even the baggage of Antonius was attacked and looted. And in this great confusion, the whole army thought that they had been attacked by the enemy and put to flight, so that Antonius called one of his bodyguards, a freed slave called Rhamnus, and made him vow that upon his command he would decapitate him with his sword.
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