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Veritatis enim absolutio semper est simplex. — Ammianus Marcellinus

"Veritatis enim absolutio semper est simplex."
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Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus
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Ammianus Marcellinus, occasionally anglicized as Ammian, was a Greek and Roman soldier and historian who wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from antiquity. Written in Latin and known as the Res gestae, his work chronicled the history of Rome from the accession of Emperor Nerva in 96 to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople in 378. Only the sections covering the peri

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