Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 26.6.20

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[20] It was thus that Andriscus of Adramytium,¹ a man born to the lowest condition, raised himself to the title of a Pseudophilippus and added to the Macedonian wars a third, full of danger. It was thus, when the emperor Macrinus was living at Antioch, that Heliogabalus Antoninus² burst forth from Emesa.³ Thus, by the unexpected uprising of Maximinus, Alexander⁴ was murdered with his mother Mamaea. Thus in Africa the elder Gordian was hurried to the throne, but when he found himself entangled in the terror of coming dangers, ended his life with the noose.⁵

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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[20] Sic Adramytenus Andriscus, de genere quidam infimae sortis, ad usque Pseudophilippi nomen evectus, bellis Macedonicis tertium addidit grave. Sic Antiochiae Macrino imperatore agente, ab Emesa Heliogabalus exsiluit¹ Antoninus. Ita inopino impetu Maximini, Alexander cum Mamaea matre confossus est. Ita² in Africa superior Gordianus in imperium raptus, adventantium periculorum angoribus implicatus vitam laqueo spiritu intercluso profundit.

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1. Cf. xiv. 11, 30.

2. Cf. Lamprid., Heliog. i. 5, Scr. Hist. Aug. ii. p. 106, note, L.C.L.

3. A city of Apamene, north of Coelesyria

4. Alexander Severus; cf. Jul. Cap., Max. 7, 8; and Lamprid., Alex. Sev. 61.

5. Capit., Gord. 16, 2; for his cenotaph, see xxiii. 5, 7, above.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 26.6.20

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