IV. Libri de Temporum Qualitatibus et Positionibus
LocorumMarcellinus Comes is said to have written
IV. Libri de Temporum
Qualitatibus et Positionibus Locorum, which is much praised by Cassiodorus (
De Institutione Divinarum Liber., 100.7), but which is lost.
ChroniconHe wrote besides a short
Chronicon, which begins with the consulship of
Ausonius and Olybrius, or the accession of Theodosius the Great, in A. D. 379, and goes down
to the accession of Justin I., in 518.
Editions
This is the original work of Marcellinus as published in the editio princeps by
Sconhovius. Another writer continued the work till the fourth
consulate of Justinian the Great, in 534. The latter part is contained in the edition
of Jo. Sirmond, Paris, 1619, 8vo.
Assessment
The compilation of Marcellinus, who lived probably at the end of the fifth and in the
beginning of the sixth century of our era, is not without some value, and is often quoted
by modern historians.