Meanings
proper noun
- uncommonAmmianus Marcellinus: a Roman soldier and historian from Late Antiquity.
The same extent of the name of Picti appears also in Ammian, as we observed elsewhere.
1879, Thomas Innes, A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain or Scotland, page 532 more examples
Who thoſe other Picts were, we learn from Ammian, that writ about fourſcore years after.
1684, William Lloyd, An Historical Account of Church-Government, as It Was in Great-Britain and Ireland, When They First Received the Christian Religion, page 6The only other Greek writer of the age to manifest a similar interest in, knowledge of, and admiration for the Republic, is Ammian.
1970, Alan Cameron, Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius, page 359
Origin
- LatinAmmiānus
- EnglishAmmian
Borrowed from Latin Ammiānus.
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