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Ammianus Marcellinus and the Romans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2009
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When Julian reached the Gallic armies at Rheims in the summer of a.d. 356 and laid his plans with the commanders for the coming campaign, it is not likely that he gave much attention to Ammianus Marcellinus, a young staff officer who was present at the discussions. Yet most of our information about the Apostate and about the years on either side of his brief and tragic career—from the aftermath of Magnentius' rebellion in 353 to the battle of Adrianople in 378—is derived from the work of that Antiochene Greek who had arrived at the army only a few months before the Caesar and who was later to become his admirer and friend.
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page 130 note 1 See ‘The Historical Method of Ammianus Marcellinus’, Hermathena, forthcoming, ad fin.
page 131 note 1 xiv. 6. 1.
page 131 note 2 xxxi. 14. 5.
page 131 note 3 xxviii. 4. 14 f.
page 131 note 4 ‘Incedendi nimietate iam superarer, ut insuetus ingenuus’, xix. 8. 6.Google Scholar
page 132 note 1 xxv. 4. 18.
page 132 note 2 xxvi. 1. 1.
page 132 note 3 xiv. 6. 19.
page 132 note 4 xiv. 6. 12.
page 132 note 5 Loc. cit., an obvious reference to himself.
page 132 note 6 xiv. 6. 22.
page 132 note 7 xxviii. 4.10.
page 133 note 1 xxviii. 4. 17. The unfortunately mutilated passage in xxviii. 4. 20 seems to be another personal touch—perhaps a protest against the patronizing attitude of some Romans towards the ‘vetus in commilitio principis recens digressus … in otium’. If so, recens is interesting.
page 133 note 2 xiv. 6. 14, 18; xxviii. 4. 12.
page 133 note 3 xxviii. 4. 21 ‘hoc tamen fatendum est quod cum omnes amicitiae Romae tepescant, aleariae solae quasi gloriosis quaesitae sudoribus sociales sunt et affectus nimii firmitate plena conexae’.
page 133 note 4 Cicero, , de Amicit. 21. 79, quoted xxviii. 4. 26.Google Scholar
page 133 note 5 For all these see xxvii. 3. 14, as well as the famous chapters xiv. 6 and xxviii. 4.
page 134 note 1 xxviii. 4. 18 ‘ubi si inter aurata flabella laciniis sericis insederint muscae, vel per foramen umbraculi pensilis radiolus irruperit solis, queruntur quod non sunt apud Cimmerios nati’.
page 134 note 2 xiv. 6. 25 f.; xxviii. 4. 28 ff.
page 134 note 3 See respectively xiv. 6. 11, 3, 6, 8.
page 134 note 4 Libanius, , Epistle, 983.Google Scholar