3 Quotes & Sayings By Ammianus Marcellinus

Ammianus Marcellinus was born in what is now northern Turkey. He was a contemporary of the Emperor Julian, who commissioned him to write The History of the Later Roman Empire. He lived through the great "reign" of the emperor Valens, who was killed by his soldiers after being wounded by his own cavalry. Ammianus lived through the Vandals' sack of Rome, during which he would have seen the temples of the empire destroyed or converted into churches.

No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most...
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No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other. Ammianus Marcellinus
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Anger is defined by philosophers as a long-standing and sometimes incurable mental ulcer, usually arising from weakness of intellect. In support of this they argue with some plausibility that this tendency occurs more in invalids than in the healthy, more in women than in men, more in the old than the young, more in those in trouble than in the prosperous. Ammianus Marcellinus