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» Ancient History Sourcebook: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome
   An excerpt from the Roman History XIV.16, from the Davis translation, in which Ammianus criticizes Rome as shallow and culturally empty.
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/ammianus-history14.html

» Forum Romanum: Ammianus Marcellinus
   Latin text of Res Gestae a Fine Corneli Taciti, as well as a list of related sites.
   http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/ammianus_bio.html

» Histos: Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus
   Paper by Jan Willem Drijvers of the University of Groningen considering Marcellinus' digression on the Black Sea in the Res Gestae as a literary rather than reference piece.
   http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/drijvers.html

» The Battle of Adrianople
   Excerpt from the Yonge 1862 translation (History, XXXI.12-14), on the Roman defeat.
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/378adrianople.html