• Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicised as Ammian (Greek: Αμμιανός Μαρκελλίνος; born c. 330, died c. 391 – 400), was a Roman soldier and historian...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0674660137. Marcellinus, Ammianus (1972). Loeb Classical Library: Ammianus Marcellinus, III. Translated by Rolfe, John C. Cambridge...
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    Adrianople AD 378: The Goths Crush Rome's Legions. Marcellinus, Ammianus. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of The Emperors Constantius...
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    Jones, Martindale & Morris, pp. 300–301. Marcellinus, Ammianus (1940). The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus. Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 2, Book 21...
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    126 & 15.20 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 22.14.1 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 22.14.3 Potter 2004, p. 515–516. Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae...
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    of its throwing arm. The onager was first mentioned in 353 AD by Ammianus Marcellinus, who described onagers as the same as a scorpion. The onager is often...
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  • Roman Empire of Ammianus, London, 1989, p. 34. Ammianus XIV., 9, Ammianus, XIV., 11 John Harrel, The Nisibis War, p. 130. Ammianus Marcellinus, The History...
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    and Hudson. p. 57. ISBN 0-500-23273-3. Marcellinus, Ammianus (1972). Loeb Classical Library: Ammianus Marcellinus, III. Translated by Rolfe, John C. Cambridge...
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    the 1st century BC and by the 4th century AD officer and historian Ammianus Marcellinus. Two versions are known: a horizontal two-armed variety like a ballista...
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    writing would have been either lorica segmentata or lorica hamata. Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman soldier and historian of the fourth century, mentions the...
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  • through the writings of Ammianus Marcellinus, though he is also present in the works of Libanius and Julian the Apostate. Marcellinus describes him as infamously...
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    133–134. Heather, 2005, p. 171. Ammianus Marcellinus, XXXI.6.1. Ammianus Marcellinus, XXXI.6. Ammianus Marcellinus, XXXI.6.7–8. Trans. J. C. Rolfe. Kulikowski...
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    that Jovian was incited by his wife to burn the library of Antioch. Ammianus Marcellinus, Zonaras and Philostorgius make no mention of the burning of the...
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    active in the way typical of imperial Roman women. According to Ammianus Marcellinus, she largely operated hidden from the public view but was still sinister...
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  • century pope Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330–c. 400), Roman historian Narcissus, Argeus, and Marcellinus (died 320), martyrs at Tomi Marcellinus of Gaul (died...
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    Elder calls it "the colony of Augusta, also called Succabar", and Ammianus Marcellinus gives it the name Sugabarri or (in adjectival form) Sugabarritanum...
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    seem to derive from one mention by Ammianus Marcellinus of "Franks, those namely whom custom calls the Salii". Ammianus, who served in the Roman military...
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    Dodgeon and Lieu (1991) p. 231 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 23.2.6 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 23.3.1 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res gestae 23.3.4–5; Zosimus...
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    are listed to the south of Trier. Their town is Dividurum (Metz). Ammianus Marcellinus, 4th century soldier and historian (Res Gestae), after pointing out...
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  • Ammianus Marcellinus, a contemporary historian, the second exposed by Zosimus, a historian of the beginning of the 6th century. Ammianus Marcellinus underlines...
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     106–108. Ammianus, XIX., 6 Ammianus, XIX., 7-9. Farrokh, Maksymiuk & Garcia 2018, p. 9. Gibbon, Ibid Ammianus, XX., 11 Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae...
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    doi:10.2747/1539-7216.53.5.596. S2CID 144370189. Ammianus, Marcellinus (1939), AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS ROMAN ANTIQUITIES - Book XXXI (Vol. III of the Loeb...
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    marriage confirmed the alliance of Julian to her brother. According to Ammianus Marcellinus: "This happened on the sixth of November of the year when Arbetio...
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  • II. The main source for her biography is the account of historian Ammianus Marcellinus. Her origins and other names are unknown. Constantius married her...
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    Christian writings used a subset of Late Latin, pagans, such as Ammianus Marcellinus or Macrobius, also wrote extensively in Late Latin, especially in...
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    disorder that occurred near the end of Roman Britain. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus described it as a barbarica conspiratio, which took advantage of...
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  • doi:10.1055/s-0032-1324811. PMID 23288753. Ammianus Marcellinus. "The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus". "Online Etymology Dictionary". Etymonline...
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    as well as a daughter who married Darius' lance-bearer Gobryas. Ammianus Marcellinus makes him a chief of the Magians, and tells a story of his studying...
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    empress consort of Gratian of the Western Roman Empire. According to Ammianus Marcellinus, her mother was Faustina and her father was Constantius II, who died...
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    C4th AD) Ammianus Marcellinus, Ammianus Marcellinus 15. 9. 5 ff (trans. Rolfe) (Roman history C4th AD) Ammianus Marcellinus, Ammianus Marcellinus 15. 10...
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