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).

Now the text of the characters cut upon the ancient obelisk which we see in the Circus[*](This obelisk, the greatest of them all (32. 50 m.), was set up at the Lateran by Fontana in 1588.) I add below in its Greek translation, following the work of Hermapion.[*](He seems to have lived in the time of Augustus.) The translation of the first line, beginning on the South side, reads as follows: