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[[File:Primo tesoro di cosoveni de jos, fibbia, V sec.jpg|thumb|center|Buckle from the first hoard of Coşoveni, 5th century, possibly of Taifal origin, from Coşoveni, Oltenia, [[Romania]]. Bucharest, Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a României.]]


From <i>History</i> (<i>Rerum Gestarum Libri XXXI</i>, c. 391 AD), Book 31, Chapter 9, by Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Volume 3, <i>Loeb Classical Library</i> (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1939).

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We have learned that these Taifali were a shameful folk, so sunken in a life of shame and obscenity, that in their country the boys are coupled with the men in [[Pederasty|a union of unmentionable lust]], to consume the flower of their youth in the polluted intercourse of those paramours. We may add that, if any grown person alone catches a boar or kills a huge bear, he is purified thereby from the shame of unchastity.
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[[File:Sarmatian riders depicted on Trajan's Column.jpg|thumb|center|Sarmatian riders depicted on Trajan's Column. Detail from the relief band with scenes from Trajan's Dacian campaigns. [[Ancient Rome|Roman]], 113 AD. Plaster cast made in 1861 after the marble original. Rome, Museo della Civiltà Romana, No. 3044.]]

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