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).

Incensed by this, Julian discharged all attendants of that kind (as being not at all necessary to him),

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as well as cooks and other similar servants, who were in the habit of receiving almost the same amount, giving them permission to go wherever they wished.