Primary source · Latin
Res Gestae
Ammianus Marcellinus · c. AD 390
What this text is
The last great classical historian — a pagan professional soldier whose surviving books (353–378) give contemporary, unsentimental notices of Christian affairs, among them the execution of Artemius under Julian.
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Public-domain translations
Working translation (from the Latin)
Word came that Artemius, the former military commander of Egypt, had suffered the supreme penalty, the Alexandrians heaping mountains of accusations upon him. (XXII.11.2)
Manuscript witnesses
Vatican, Vat. lat. 1873 (Fuldensis)
9th c.The Fulda manuscript on which the surviving text chiefly rests.
Editio princeps (Sabinus, Rome)
1474First printing, from a lost sister manuscript.
Provenance
Rome; a Greek officer's Latin history of his own times
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Ammianus Marcellinus (Loeb Classical Library)J. C. Rolfe, 1935–1939Latin text with facing English.
- The Roman Empire of AmmianusJohn Matthews, 1989The standard modern study.