Res Gestae
Ammianus Marcellinus
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).
Caesar, angered at this and feeling that such treatment was unjust and undeserved, ordered his faithful guards[*](See note, p. 56.) to arrest the prefect. When this became known, Montius, who was then quaestor,[*](Corresponding in the court of Gallus to the quaestor sacri palatii of the emperor.) a spirited man but somewhat inclined to moderate measures, having in view the public welfare, sent for the foremost members of the palace troops and addressed them in mild terms, pointing out that such conduct was neither seemly nor expedient and adding in a tone of reproof that if they approved of this course, it would be fitting