Ammian

English

Etymology

From Latin Ammiānus: a masculine praenomen of probable Semitic origin.

Proper noun

Ammian

1. (uncommon) Ammianus Marcellinus, a Roman soldier and historian from Late Antiquity.
   • 1684, William Lloyd, An Historical Account of Church-Government, as It Was in Great-Britain and Ireland, When They First Received the Christian Religion‎^[1], page 6:

     Who thoſe other Picts were, we learn from Ammian, that writ about fourſcore years after.

   • 1879, Thomas Innes, A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain or Scotland‎^[2], page 53:

     The same extent of the name of Picti appears also in Ammian, as we observed elsewhere.

   • 1970, Alan Cameron, Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius‎^[3], page 359:

     The only other Greek writer of the age to manifest a similar interest in, knowledge of, and admiration for the Republic, is Ammian.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ammian.