The Roman History

The following section of the original manuscript is extremely faded and heavily obscured by staining and severe bleed-through from the reverse side of the paper, making a complete translation impossible.

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original: "Notae in Librum I ad eundem ordinem." This indicates that the following scholarly comments are intended to follow the chronological or thematic order of Ammianus’s first book.

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