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).

When peace with the Goths had thus been secured, Constantine turned against the Sarmatians, who were showing themselves to be of doubtful loyalty. But the slaves of the Sarmatians rebelled against all their masters[*](The Limigantes; see Amm., xvii. 13, 1; xvii. 12, 18 ff.) and drove them from the country. These Constantine willingly received, and

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distributed more than three hundred thousand people of different ages and both sexes through Thrace, Scythia, Macedonia, and Italy.