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[1]This manuscript appears from its references and style to be the work of the fourth century historian Ammianus Marcellinus. If it is genuine, it constitutes a fascinating expansion upon many of the hints of the surviving books of his history (the Res Gestae). However, this is probably a modern forgery.
[2] AD 363; however, Ammianus is generally believed to have spent some years in his native Antioch after that event.
[3] De Amicitia, 21, 79.
[4]Milan. In the fourth century, emperors did not reside at Rome, which was too remote from the frontiers.
[5] AD 359 Res Gestae XIX.
[6]Q. Aurelius Symmachus held that office in 384.
[7]An informer who brought a successful prosecution for treason was entitled to a portion of the traitor's estate. Ammianus accuses the Anicii of enriching themselves in this way in XVI.8.19 and XXVII.11.3 as well.
[8]If this dinner took place during the prefecture of Symmachus, the emperors in question would be Theodosius and Valentinian II.
[9]The full story is in Res Gestae XV, 5. Ammianus undoubtedly would remember it "very well", since he helped to arrange Silvanus' assassination.
[10] St Ambrose
[11]In May 392 Arbogast rebelled, naming a Roman associate Eugenius as emperor.
[12] It's chapter 7, Res Gestae XVI.
Table of Contents
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF ROMAN WHODUNNITS
Copyright and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Long Reach of Rome by Steven Saylor
Never Forget by Tom Holt
A Gladiator Dies Only Once by Steven Saylor
The Hostage to Fortune by Michael Jecks
De Crimine by Miriam Allen deFord
The Will by John Maddox Roberts
Honey Moon by Marilyn Todd
Damnum Fatale by Philip Boast
Rome, AD 63
Heads You Lose by Simon Scarrow
Great Caesar's Ghost by Michael Kurland
The Cleopatra Game by Jane Finnis
Bread and Circuses by Caroline Lawrence
The Missing Centurion by Anonymous
Some Unpublished Correspondence of the Younger Pliny by Darrell Schweitzer
1. Pliny to the Emperor
2. Trajan to Pliny
3. Pliny to Trajan
A Golden Opportunity by Jean Davidson
Caveat Emptor by Rosemary Rowe
Sunshine and Shadow by R. H. Stewart
The Case of His Own Abduction by Wallace Nichols
The Malice of the Anicii[1] by Gillian Bradshaw
The Finger of Aphrodite by Mary Reed and Eric Mayer
The Lost Eagle by Peter Tremayne
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