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).

Basiliscus ruled for two years. Zeno strengthened the Isaurians within the province; then he sent to the city of Nova,[*](In Moesia on the Danube.) where Theodoric, the general of the Goths and son of Walamericus, was stationed, and invited him to render him relief against Basiliscus. Then he came back[*](See § 36, note 9, where we have a sure example; sometimes, as here, the use is less obvious, though probable.) to Constantinople after two years, brought an attacking force against the city, and laid siege to it.