Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 29.2.16

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[16] Conspicuous among all of these was our Hypatius, a man recommended from his youth by noble virtues, of quiet and calm discretion, and of a nobility and gentleness measured as it were by the plumb-line;¹ he conferred honour on the fame of his ancestors² and himself gave glory to posterity by the admirable acts of his two prefectures.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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[16] Inter quos omnes ab adulescentia¹ virtutum pulchritudine commendabilis, noster Hypatius praeminebat, vir quieti placidique consilii, honestatem lenium morum velut ad perpendiculum librans, qui et maiorum claritudini gloriae fuit, et ipse posteritatem mirandis actibus praefecturae geminae decoravit.

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History

1. See xiv. 8, 11, note 2; xxi. 16, 3, note 4.

2. Cf. C.I.L. i. part 2, ed. 2, 15 (epitaph of Scipio Hispanus),

virtutes generis mieis mribus accumulavi.

3. At a later time; Flavius Hypatius was prefect of Rome in 397, praetorian prefect in 382 and 383.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 29.2.16

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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