Ammian
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin Ammiānus: a masculine praenomen of probable Semitic origin.
Proper noun
[edit]Ammian
- (uncommon) Ammianus Marcellinus, a Roman soldier and historian from Late Antiquity.
- 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 6:
- Who thoſe other Picts were, we learn from Ammian, that writ about fourſcore years after.
- 1879, Thomas Innes, A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain or Scotland, page 53:
- The same extent of the name of Picti appears also in Ammian, as we observed elsewhere.
- 1970, Alan Cameron, Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius, page 359:
- The only other Greek writer of the age to manifest a similar interest in, knowledge of, and admiration for the Republic, is Ammian.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ammian.