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‘The Gothic civil war and the date of the Gothic conversion’, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 36 (1995): 51–87.

[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,

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