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Ammian
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English
+us Marcellinus
Etymology
en la Ammiānus.
Proper noun
en uncommon Ammianus Marcellinus: a Roman soldier and historian from Late Antiquity.
en 1684 William Lloyd (bishop of Worcester) William Lloyd An Historical Account of Church-Government, as It Was in Great-Britain and Ireland, When They First Received the Christian Religion https://books.google.com/books?id=Ys05AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA6 6 Who thoſe other Picts were, we learn from Ammian, that writ about fourſcore years after.
en 1879 Thomas Innes (historian) Thomas Innes A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain or Scotland https://books.google.com/books?id=ThQPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53 53 The same extent of the name of Picti appears also in Ammian, as we observed elsewhere.
en 1970 Alan Cameron (classicist) Alan Cameron Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius https://books.google.com/books?id=Li10AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA359 359 The only other Greek writer of the age to manifest a similar interest in, knowledge of, and admiration for the Republic, is Ammian.
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