Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 22.9.3

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[3] Accordingly, having crossed the strait,¹ and passed by Chalcedon and Libyssa, where Hannibal the Carthaginian was buried, he came to Nicomedia, a city famed of old and so enlarged at the great expense of earlier emperors,² that because of the great number of its private and public buildings it was regarded by good judges as one of the regions, so to speak, of the Eternal City.³

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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History (English) (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).)

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[3] Transgressus itaque fretum, praetercursa Chalcedone¹ et Libyssa, ubi sepultus est Hannibal Poenus, Nicomediam venit, urbem antehac inclytam, ita magnis retro principum amplificatam impensis, ut aedium multitudine privatarum et publicarum, recte noscentibus regio quaedam urbis aestimaretur aeternae.

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1. The Thracian Bosporus.

2. Especially Diocletian and Constantine the Great, whose favourite resort it was.

3. The reference is to the fourteen regions into which Rome was divided by Augustus. Nicomedia, in the opinion of good judges of such matters, was worthy to be considered a fifteenth region of Rome.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 22.9.3

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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