Citations:Ammian

English citations of Ammian

1. • 1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, →OCLC, page 262:

     But the words of Ammian (qui autem notarum textus obelisco incisus est ueteri quem uidemus in Circo) rather suggest, I think, the obelisk of Augustus, which he had mentioned above.

   • 1802, English Encyclopaedia, volume 9, →OCLC, page 769:

     Ammian complains that they were built to ſuch an extent as to equal whole provinces; from which Valeſius would abate, by reading piſcinae inſtead of provinciae.

   • 2002 October 24, Jan Retsö, The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads, Routledge, →ISBN, page 517:

     The description of the Saracens thus contains some ‘modern’ features revealing that changes had taken place in Arabia before the time of Ammian.