Ammianus Marcellinus: Roman History, Volume II, Books 20-26 (Loeb Classical Library No. 315) (English and Latin Edition)

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by  Ammianus Marcellinus

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AMMIANUS
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WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
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CONTENTS

PREFACE

HISTORY
BOOK XX
BOOK XX
BOOK XXII
BOOK XXIIL
BOOK XXIV
BOOK XXV
BOOK XXVI

INDEX
FIGURES: ENGINES OF WAR
MAPS
PREFACE

In punctuation I have perhaps deviated moro than
in vol, i, from Clark’s system (see Preface to vel.
i), especially when one metrical clausula is immed-
iately followed by anothcr consisting of a single
word.

In his description of natural phenomena, auch as
that of the rainbow in xx. 11, 26 ff., Ammianus
is often inexact and sometimes not clear. It has
seemed best to try to translate what he says,
without attempting to reconcile his statements with
those of modern times, or with thase of the more
enlightened Greck und Roman writers.

Inconsistency in the Jecation of places (ef. vol.
in p- 583, note) is sometimes duc to errors on the
part of Ammianus, more froquently to changes in
the boundaries and the names of the provinces
in his time.

Ammianus often uses comes, “ count” without
further designations which identify the nature of
office ; in such instances it seems best to give the
word its actual meaning. This applies with greater
force to dux, of which “ duke ” is scldam, if ever,
a satisfactory rendering. See vol. i, p. xxiv,
note 3, and Li, von Nischer in Amer. Jour. of Phit.,
liii., pp. 25 #£.

JOBN C. ROLFE,
Puaounrna, June, 1936.

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LIBER XX?

Lupicinus, magister armorum, adversus Scotorum
et Pictorum ineursiones in Britannias cum
exercitu mittitur.

1. Haec per Ilyricum porque Orientem rerum
series fuit. Cousulatu vero Constantii deciens,
verque Tuliani, in Britanaiis cum Seottorum
Pictorumque gentium ferarum excursus? rupta
quiete condicta, loca limilibus vicina vastarent, et
implicaret formido provincias, praeteritarum cladium
congerie fessas, hiemem agens apud Parisios Caesar
distractusque in eollicitudines varias, vercbatur iro
subsidiv transmurinis, ut rettulimus ante fecisse
Constante, ne rectore vacuas relinqueret Gallias,
Alamannis ad sacvitiam etiam tum incitatis et hella.
2, Ire igitur ad huce ralione vel vi? componenda,

1In the critical notes some additional names which
occur frequently havo ‘boon abbreviated: Bent(ley)
Com(clisscn), ©. F. W. M(iller), Momm(sen), etc.

*enoureus, Vali; exeurau, V. 3 ui, added by Val. ;
V omita.

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BOOK XX

1, Lupicinus, master of arms, is sent with on army
fo Britain, to resist the inroads of the Scots and
Picts.

1. Such was the course of events throughout
Tilyricum and the Orient. But in Britain in the
tenth consulship of Constantius and the third of
Julian raids of the savage tribes of the Scots and
the Picts, who had broken the peace that had been
agceed upon, were laying waste the regions near
the frontiers, eo that fear seized the provinciala,
wearied as they were by a mass of past calamities.
And Julian, who was passing the winter in Paris
and was distracted amid many cares, was afraid to
go to the aid of those across the sea, as Constans
onee did (as I have told),’ for fear of leaving Caul
without ruler at a time when the Alamanni were
already roused to sage and war. 2. Therefore he
decided that Lupicinus,? who was at that time

1 one of the lost books; it was in 343,
9Cf, xviii. 2, 7.
CONSTANTIUS ET JULIANUS

Lupicinum placuit, ea tempestate magistrum armo-
rum, bellicosum sane et castrensis rei peritum, sed
supercilia erigentem ut cornua,! et de tragico (quod
aiunt) eothumo strepentem, super que? diu ambige-
batur, avarus esset potius an crudelis. 3. Moto
igitur velitari auxilio, Aerulis scilicet et Batavie,
mumerisque Moesiacorum duobus, adulta hieme dux
ante dictus Bononiam venit, quacsitisque navigiis,
et omni imposito milite, observato flatu secundo
ventornm, ad Rutupias sitas ex adverso defertur,
petitque Lundinium, ut exinde suscepto pro rei
qualitate consilio, festinaret ocius ad procinctum.

2, Ursicinus, magister peditum praesentalis, calumniis
appetitus discingitur.

1, Quae cum ? ita geruntur,! post Amidae oppug-
nationem Ursiciaum ad commilitium principis ut
peditum magistrum reversum, (successisse enim eum
Barbationi praedixims), obtrectatores excipiunt,
primo disseminates mordaces susurros, dein pro-
palam ficta crimina subnectentes. 2. Quibus im-
perator assensua, ex opinione pleraque aestimans,
et insidiantibus patens, Arbitionem ct Florentium
officiorum magistram quaesitores dederat specta-
turos, quas ob res oppidum sit excisum, 3, Quibus

tut comua, EBG; incongrue, Cora.; cornuae ef, V.
‘quo, TEA; quod, V. Soum, Ve dum, Clarks,
* geruntur, NBG ; gererentur Kiessling, Pighius; ageren-
tur, By genreniur, V+; genruntur V*,

106. xvi. 20, 12, elatus in arduaum supercitium.
1A tribe af Gothie origin which settled im Gaul; asso.
cinted with the Batavi also in xx, 4,2; xxvii, 8, 7.

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