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Forum Romanum: Ammianus Marcellinus - Latin text of Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti, as well as a list of related sites.
Histos: Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus - Paper by Jan Willem Drijvers of the University of Groningen considering Marcellinus' digression on the Black Sea in the Res Gestae as a literary rather than reference piece.
Ancient History Sourcebook: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome - An excerpt from the Roman History XIV.16, from the Davis translation, in which Ammianus criticizes Rome as shallow and culturally empty.
Ammianus Marcellinus: Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti - Geschichtswerk über die Zeit von 96 bis 378 nach Christus.
The Battle of Adrianople - Excerpt from the Yonge 1862 translation (History, XXXI.12-14), on the Roman defeat.

Ammianus Marcellinus - Ammianus Marcellinus (325/330-after 391) was a fourth-century Greek historian Robert Burton: The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume VI, Robert Burton, John Bernard Bamborough, Oxford University Press, p.303 The History of Scotland, George Buchanan, James Aikman, 1827 Blackie, Fullarton, p.
Maogamalcha - Maogamalcha was a place in Mesopotamia, attacked and taken by the Roman Emperor Julian (Ammianus Marcellinus xxiv. 4.
Vindonius Anatolius - Vindonius Anatolius of Beirut (also known as Vindanius, Vindanionius, Berytius) was a Greek author of the 4th century, and may be identical with the praetor of the Roman province of Illyricum mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus.
Dicalydones - The Dicalydones were mentioned by the 4th century writer Ammianus Marcellinus as one of the two branches of the Picti, the Picts, the inhabitants of modern-day Scotland (the other being the Verturiones).
Great Conspiracy - The Great Conspiracy is a term given to a year-long war that occurred in Roman Britain near the end of the Roman occupation of the island. The historian Ammianus Marcellinus described it as a barbarica conspiratio that capitalised on a depleted military force in the province brought about by Magnentius' losses of the Battle of Mursa Major.