SCRIPTURA

Classical Latin

History · Res gestae

Ammianus Marcellinus

Translated by John C. Rolfe

The last great Latin history of Rome, by a Greek soldier: the emperor Julian, the Persian wars and the Goths’ victory at Adrianople in AD 378.

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  • Latin: ed. John C. Rolfe, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit, stoa0023.stoa001, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: John C. Rolfe, from the Perseus Digital Library (stoa0023.stoa001.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (books, chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 52

  1. 1Book XIV · chapters 1–6
  2. 2Book XIV · chapters 6–9
  3. 3Book XIV · chapters 9–11
  4. 4Book XV · chapters 1–5
  5. 5Book XV · chapters 5–8
  6. 6Book XV · chapters 8–13
  7. 7Book XVI · chapters 1–8
  8. 8Book XVI · chapters 8–12
  9. 9Book XVI · chapter 12
  10. 10Book XVII · chapters 1–5
  11. 11Book XVII · chapters 5–12
  12. 12Book XVII · chapters 12–14
  13. 13Book XVIII · chapters 1–6
  14. 14Book XVIII · chapters 6–10
  15. 15Book XIX · chapters 1–7
  16. 16Book XIX · chapters 8–13
  17. 17Book XX · chapters 1–5
  18. 18Book XX · chapters 5–8
  19. 19Book XX · chapters 8–11
  20. 20Book XXI · chapters 1–7
  21. 21Book XXI · chapters 7–12
  22. 22Book XXI · chapters 12–16
  23. 23Book XXII · chapters 1–8
  24. 24Book XXII · chapters 8–12
  25. 25Book XXII · chapters 13–16
  26. 26Book XXIII · chapters 1–5
  27. 27Book XXIII · chapters 5–6
  28. 28Book XXIII · chapter 6
  29. 29Book XXIV · chapters 1–4
  30. 30Book XXIV · chapters 4–8
  31. 31Book XXV · chapters 1–4
  32. 32Book XXV · chapters 4–7
  33. 33Book XXV · chapters 7–10
  34. 34Book XXVI · chapters 1–5
  35. 35Book XXVI · chapters 5–8
  36. 36Book XXVI · chapters 8–10
  37. 37Book XXVII · chapters 1–7
  38. 38Book XXVII · chapters 7–12
  39. 39Book XXVIII · chapter 1
  40. 40Book XXVIII · chapters 1–4
  41. 41Book XXVIII · chapters 4–6
  42. 42Book XXIX · chapters 1–2
  43. 43Book XXIX · chapters 2–5
  44. 44Book XXIX · chapters 5–6
  45. 45Book XXX · chapters 1–5
  46. 46Book XXX · chapters 5–10
  47. 47Book XXXI · chapters 1–5
  48. 48Book XXXI · chapters 5–9
  49. 49Book XXXI · chapters 9–13
  50. 50Book XXXI · chapters 13–16
  51. 51Book val1
  52. 52Book val2