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).

Augustulus,[*](His title Augustus was changed to Augustulus in mockery of, or perhaps because of, his youth.) who was called Romulus by his parents before he mounted the throne, was made emperor by his father, the patrician Orestes. Then Odoacar made his appearance with a force of Sciri[*](See Pliny, N.H. iv. 97, and note 1, p. 507; they served as mercenaries in the Roman army, but revolted.) and killed the patrician Orestes at Placentia, and his brother Paulus at the Pine Grove,[*](Pineta is a late form for Pinetum. ) outside the Classis[*](Classes, or Classis, was a part of Ravenna near the harbour of the praetorian fleet.) at Ravenna.