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- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus, The History, (Kindle Edition), XVI., 12, 5
- ↑ Gibbon, Ibid. chap. XIX., p. 622
- ↑ Ammianus, XV., 8, 1-21
- ↑ Ammianus, XVI., 2, 1
- ↑ Ammianus, XVI., 1, 5
- ↑ Ammianus, XVI., 2, 2
- ↑ Goldsworthy, Adrian. In the Name of Rome, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003, p. 343