Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 30.7.10

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[10] With like effectiveness he also crushed Valentinus, the exile from Pannonia, who was trying to disturb the public peace in that province, before his design came to a head.¹ Next, he saved Africa from great dangers, when that country was in the throes of an unexpected disaster; for Firmus was unable to endure the greed and arrogance of the military officials and had aroused the Moorish tribes, whose ardour can always easily be fanned to any plan of dissension.² With equal courage he would have avenged the lamentable catastrophes in Illyricum, had he not been overtaken by death and left that important matter unfinished.³

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

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[10] Efficacia pari Valentinum quoque, Pannonium exsulem, per has provincias molientem otium turbare commune, antequam negotium effervescat, oppressit.

Africam deinde malo repentino perculsam,¹ discriminibus magnis exemit, cum voracis militarium fastus ferre nequiens Firmus, ad omnes dissensionum motus perflabiles gentes Mauricas concitasset.

Similique fortitudine clades ingemiscendas Illyrici vindicasset, ni morte praeventus reliquisset rem seriam imperfectam.

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1. Cf. xxviii. 3, 4 ff.

2. Cf. xxix. 5, 3, 15, 25.

3. xxix. 6, 12 ff.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 30.7.10

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