Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), val1.6.35

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[35] Constantine also put down a certain Calocaerus,¹ who tried to achieve a revolution in Cyprus. He made Dalmatius, son of his brother of the same name,² a Caesar; Dalmatius’ brother Hannibalianus he created King of Kings and ruler of the Pontic tribes,³ after giving him his daughter Constantiana⁴ in marriage. Then it was arranged that the younger Constantine should rule the Gallic provinces, Constantius Caesar the Orient, Constans Illyricum and Italy, while Dalmatius was to guard the Gothic coastline.⁵ While Constantine was planning to make war on the Persians, he died in an imperial villa⁶ in the suburbs of Constantinople, not far from Nicomedia, leaving the State in good order to his sons. He was buried in Constantinople, after a reign of thirty-one years.⁷

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

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[35] Calocaerum quendam in Cypro aspirantem novis rebus oppressit. Dalmatium, filium fratris sui Dalmatii, Caesarem fecit. Eius fratrem Hannibalianum, data ei Constantiana filia sua, regem regum et Ponticarum gentium constituit. Itaque¹ Gallias Constantinus minor regebat, Orientem Constantius Caesar, Illyricum et Italiam Constans, ripam Gothicam Dalmatius tuebatur. Item Constantinus cum bellum pararet in Persas, in suburbano Constantinopolitano villa² publica iuxta Nicomediam, dispositam bene rem publicam filiis tradens, diem obiit.³ Regnavit ann. XXXI. Sepultus est Constantinopoli.

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1. He was a camel-driver.

2. See 2, 2, note 6, above.

3. See Amm. xiv. 1, 2, note 2.

4. This was Constantia, wrongly called Constantina in xiv. 11, 22 and elsewhere, afterwards wife of Gallus Caesar.

5. The name Gothica ripa was applied at that time to Thrace, Macedonia and Achaia

6. The place where he died was called Ancyrona or Anchyro or Anchyronis, Hieron., Chronica, ann. Abr. 2353 ( T.L.L.).

7. From the death of Constantius Chlorus, in 306, to 337.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae val1.6.35

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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