Res Gestae

Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).

For he brought forward a convincing reason, made clear by the testimony of many persons, namely, that four days before Silvanus assumed

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the badges[*](These were improvised for the occasion; seo 5, 16, at the end.) of empire, he paid the soldiers and in Constantius’ name exhorted them to be brave and loyal. From which it was clear that if he were planning to appropriate the insignia of a higher rank, he would have bestowed so great a quantity of gold as his own gift.

After him Poemenius, doomed like evil doers, was haled to execution and perished; he was the man (as we have told above)[*](In one of the lost books.) who was chosen to protect his fellow-citizens when Treves closed its gates against Decentius Caesar.[*](Decentius had been given the rank of Caesar by his brother Magnentius.) Then the counts Asclepiodotus, Lutto and Maudio were put to death, and many others, since the obduracy of the times made an intricate investigation into these and similar charges.