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).

While these things were thus happening, at Rome Artemius, who held the office of vice-prefect,

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also succeeded Bassus,[*](Junius Bassus died in 359; according to Prudentius, contra Symm. i. 559, he was the first of his family to become a Christian.) who a short time after he had been promoted to be prefect of the city had died a natural death. His administration suffered from mutinous disturbances, but had no remarkable incident which is worth relating.