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[35] Constantine also put down a certain Calocaerus, 1 who tried to achieve a revolution in Cyprus. He made Dalmatius, son of his brother of the same name, 2 a Caesar; Dalmatius' brother Hannibalianus he created King of Kings and ruler of the Pontic tribes, 3 after giving him his daughter Constantiana 4 in marriage. Then it was arranged that the younger Constantine should rule the Gallic provinces, Constantius Caesar the Orient, Constans Illyricum and Italy, while Dalmatius was to guard [p. 531] the Gothic coastline. 5 While Constantine was planning to make war on the Persians, he died in an imperial villa 6 in the suburbs of Constantinople, not far from Nicomedia, leaving the State in good order to his sons. He was buried in Constantinople, after a reign of thirty-one years. 7

1 He was a camel-driver.

2 See 2, 2, note 6, above.

3 See Amm. xiv. 1, 2, note 2.

4 This was Constantia, wrongly called Constantina in xiv. 11, 22 and elsewhere, afterwards wife of Gallus Caesar.

5 The name Gothica ripa was applied at that time to Thrace, Macedonia and Achaia

6 The place where he died was called Ancyrona or Anchyro or Anchyronis, Hieron., Chronica, ann. Abr. 2353 (T.L.L.).

7 From the death of Constantius Chlorus, in 306, to 337.

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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