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).

and in order to keep the form of the letter φ full and complete, in the

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very middle of the circle lies the oblong island of Proconesos,[*](See § 4, above, and the note.) and Besbicus.[*](This island is a long way to the westward of the middle of the Propontis, and since the length of the two islands is from west to east, they would form a theta, θ, rather than a φ. )