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[31] Then he began war against the Goths, rendering aid also to the Sarmatians, who had appealed to him for help. 1 The result was that almost a hundred thousand of the Goths were destroyed by hunger and cold through Constantinus Caesar. 2 Then he also received hostages, among whom was Ariaricus, the king's son.

1 In 334.

2 The son of Constantine the Great, afterwards Constantinus II; see ยง 19, above.

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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