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[2] Then, too, Artemius, sometime military commander in Egypt, 1 since the Alexandrians heaped upon him a mass of atrocious charges, suffered capital [p. 259] punishment. After him the son of Marcellus, at one time commander of the cavalry and infantry, 2 was publicly executed, on the ground that he had aspired to the throne. Finally, even Romanus and Vincentius, tribunes of the first and the second corps of the targeteers, were convicted of designs beyond their powers and exiled. 3

1 xvii. 11, 5.

2 xvi. 2, 7, 8.

3 They were followers of the banished Athanasius, xv. 7, 7 and 10.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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