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- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXI.8.1
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXI.9.6
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXV.3.1-23
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXIV.1.2
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXVII.2.1
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXVI.4.1
- ↑ Boeft, Jan den; Jan Willem Drijvers; Daniël den Hengst & Hans Teitler (2007). Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus XXVI. Leiden: Brill. p. 98. ISBN 978-90-04-16346-1. Against the statement in PLRE that he was magister peditum.
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXVI.5.2
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXVII.1.1-6
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXVII.2.1