Sunday, April 8, 2007

Ammianus Marcellinus

From the ever productive and redoubtable Roger Pearse:

Since apparently no-one intends to scan an English translation of
Ammianus Marcellinus, I have gone ahead and scanned the old Bohn
(1862) translation by C.D.Yonge. It's here:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Ammianus_Marcellinus


The text etc is all public domain everywhere in the world, so go
ahead, take copies, use it as you see fit with my blessing. That's
what it's for.

Pressure of other tasks meant that I had to omit footnotes, and
probably there are typos. If you see the latter, and feel like
sending them to me, I will fix them!

This book is also on Google books, complete -- but only if you're in
the US! I find that a lot of people outside the US dismiss Google
Books. This is because we can't actually see most of the content. In
fact it contains acres of useful stuff that we cannot see. For
several links for Greek, Latin, etc, all available complete -- in the
US! -- see the links here:

http://semperegoauditor.typepad.com/ccc/2006/12/google_books.html

The whole collection of English translations of the Fathers not in the
ANF etc (plus related texts) is at:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers

A CDROM of the site is also available:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/all_the_fathers_on_cd.htm

All the best,

Roger Pearse

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