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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

WORKS<br />

Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani: compendium of Roman history from<br />

foundation of city to reign of Valens, written 369; see Fest. Brev. 1, 2, 10.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXT AND COMMENTARY: TEXT: C. Wagener (BT, 1886). COMMENTARY:<br />

J. W. Eadie (London 1967).<br />

STUDIES: E. Malcovati, 'I breviari del quarto secolo', Ann. Fac. Lettere e Filosofia<br />

Univ. Cagliari I (1942) 23—65; W. den Boer, Some minor Roman historians (Leiden<br />

1972) 173-223; B. Baldwin, 'Festus the historian', Historia 17 (1978) 192—217.<br />

EPITOME DE CAESARIBUS<br />

TEXT: In F. Pichlmayr, Sextus Aurelius De Caesaribus, corr. R. Gruendel (BT,i966).<br />

STUDIES: J. Schlumberger, Die Epitome de Caesaribus. Untersuchungen %ur heidnischen<br />

Geschichtsschreibung des 4. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. (Munich 1974); W. Hartke,<br />

Romische Kinderkaiser. Eine Strukturanalyse romischen Denkens und Daseins (Berlin<br />

EXCERPTUM VALESIANUM<br />

TEXT: J. Moreau, rev. V. Velkov (BT, 1968).<br />

AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS<br />

LIFE<br />

b. of Greek parents at Antioch c. A.D. 325—330. Served in the East <strong>and</strong> in Gaul under<br />

Ursicinus for seven years from 353/354, <strong>and</strong> joined Julian in his Persian campaign 363.<br />

Visited Egypt, Greece (366) <strong>and</strong> Antioch (371), <strong>and</strong> later settled in Rome. Date of<br />

death unknown. Sources: Amm. Marc, passim, esp. 19.8.6, 14.9.1, 14.115, 15.5.22,<br />

16.2.8, 16.10.21, 17.4.6, 18.8.11, 19.8.12, 21.5.7, 22.15.1., 24.1.5, 24.2.1, 24.5.1, 24.8.4,<br />

25.1.1, 25.2.1, 25.3.1, 29.1.24, 29.2.16, 30.4.4; Liban. Epist. 983 (recitals of parts of his<br />

history at Rome). Cf. PLRE I 547-8.<br />

WORKS<br />

Res gestae: continuation of Tacitus, originally in thirty-one books (A.D. 96—378), of<br />

which only 14-31 survive (starting in 353); written from 360s until possibly 395;<br />

923<br />

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