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).

Constantine also put down a certain Calocaerus,[*](He was a camel-driver.) who tried to achieve a revolution in Cyprus. He made Dalmatius, son of his brother of the same name,[*](See 2, 2, note 6, above.) a Caesar; Dalmatius’ brother Hannibalianus he created King of Kings and ruler of the Pontic tribes,[*](See Amm. xiv. 1, 2, note 2.) after giving him his daughter Constantiana[*](This was Constantia, wrongly called Constantina in xiv. 11, 22 and elsewhere, afterwards wife of Gallus Caesar.) 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

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the Gothic coastline.[*](The name Gothica ripa was applied at that time to Thrace, Macedonia and Achaia) While Constantine was planning to make war on the Persians, he died in an imperial villa[*](The place where he died was called Ancyrona or Anchyro or Anchyronis, Hieron., Chronica, ann. Abr. 2353 (T.L.L.).) 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.[*](From the death of Constantius Chlorus, in 306, to 337.)