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[121] Basil, Ep. 154, 164, and 165, following the identification of C. Zuckermann, ‘Cappadocian fathers and the Goths’, Travaux et Memoires 11 (1991): 473–86.
[122] Text of the Passio in Hippolyte Delehaye, ‘Saints de Thrace et de Mésie’, Analecta Bollandiana 31 (1912): 161–300 at 216–21, with the translation of Heather and Matthews, Goths, 111–17.
[123] Jerome, Chron., s.a. 369 (ed. Helm, 249i).
[124] Delehaye, ‘Saints’, 279. See also the translations at Heather and Matthews, Goths, 125–30.
[125] Socrates, HE 4.33–34; Delehaye, ‘Saints’, 276, but the manuscript tradition is faulty and the original name commemorated not entirely clear.
Chapter Six: The Battle of Adrianople
[126] The whole of Ammianus’ Hun excursus comes in 31.2.
[127] Zosimus, HN 4.20.4.
[128] See, e.g., Ammianus, RG 31.4.2 where rumour is explicitly cited as the source for people’s knowledge of events in the barbaricum.
[129] Ammianus, RG 31.3.1–4.
[130] Ammianus, RG 31.3.5–8.
[131] Ammianus, RG 31.4.1–2.
[132] Ammianus, RG 31.4.1.
[133] Socrates, HE 4.33–34.
[134] Basil, Ep. 237.
[135] Themistius, Or. 10.
[136] Ammianus, RG 31.4.5–7. Hostages are implied at Eunapius, frag. 42 (Blockley) = 42 (Müller).
[137] Attested by Zosimus, HN 4.20.6; Eunapius, frag. 42 (Blockley) = 42 (Müller).
[138] Ammianus, RG 31.4.9; Orosius, Hist. 7.33.11.
[139] Ammianus, RG 31.4.11; Zosimus, HN 4.20.6.
[140] Ammianus, RG 31.4.12–13.
[141] Ammianus, RG 31.5.3.
[142] Ammianus, RG 31.5.4–8.
[143] See especially Ammianus, RG 18.2.13; 21.3.4; 29.6.5; 30.1.18–22.
[144] Ammianus, RG 31.5.9–17.
[145] Ammianus, RG 31.6.1–3.
[146] But see the account of them in Ammianus, RG 31.6–11.
[147] Ammianus, RG 31.7.1.
[148] Ammianus, RG 31.7.3–5.
[149] Ammianus, RG 31.7.5–9.
[150] Ammianus, RG 31.9.1–5. For another example, see 28.5.15, on the Alamanni.
[151] Ammianus, RG 31.8.1–8; Zosimus, HN 4.22; Socrates, HE 4.38; Sozomen, HE 6.39.2.
[152] Codex Theodosianus 7.6.3 (9 August 377).
[153] Basil, Ep. 268.
[154] Ammianus, RG 3.10.21.
[155] Ammianus, RG 31.10.1–20.
[156] Socrates, HE 4.38; Ammianus, RG 31.11.1; Zosimus, HN 4.21.
[157] M. Speidel, ‘Sebastian’s strike force at Adrianople’, Klio 78 (1996): 434–37.
[158] Ammianus, RG 31.11.1–5; Zosimus, HN 4.21; Eunapius, frag. 44.4 (Blockley) = 47 (Müller); Theoderet, HE 4.33.2 for Valens on Traianus.
[159] Ammianus, RG 31.12.3.
[160] Ammianus, RG 31.12.4.
[161] Ammianus, RG 31.12.4–7; Zosimus, HN 4.23–24.
[162] Ammianus, RG 31.12.8–9.
[163] Ammianus, RG 31.12.10–15.
[164] Ammianus, RG 31.12.16.
[165] Ammianus, RG 31.12.16–31.13.11.
[166] Ammianus, RG 31.13.12–17; Zosimus, HN 4.24.
[167] Ammianus, RG 31.13.18–19.
[168] Themistius, Or. 16.206d.
Chapter Seven: Theodosius and the Goths
[169] Eunapius, frag. 39.9 (Blockley) = 38 (Müller).
[170] Ammianus, RG 31.16.8.
[171] Zosimus, HN 4.25–26. The date is established by the fact that Modares, a general of the new emperor Theodosius, had already won some victories in Thrace when the massacre in Asia Minor took place.
[172] All earlier scholarly solutions are summarized in S. Elbern, ‘Das Gotenmassaker in Kleinasien (378 n. Chr.)’, Hermes 115 (1987): 99–106.
[173] Scythians repulsed from Euchaita in Helenopontus: PG 46: 736–48, at 737A (encomium of St. Theodore, dated 17 February 380); young man shot by Scythians outside Comana Pontica: PG 46: 416–32 at 424C (sermon on baptism, undated), on both of which see C. Zuckerman, ‘Cappadocian fathers and the Goths’, Travaux et Memoires 11 (1991): 473–86.
[174] Ammianus, RG 31.10.1–20.
[175] S. Williams and G. Friel, Theodosius: The Empire at Bay (London, 1994).
[176] Ammianus, RG 29.6.14–16.
[177] Theoderet, HE 5.5.
[178] N. McLynn, ‘“Genere Hispanus”: Theodosius,