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conversations.value: Together these five compact volumes [ Early Greece by Oswyn Murray, Democracy and Classical Greece by J. K. Davies, The Hellenistic World by F. W. Walbank, The Roman Republic by Michael Crawford, and The Later Roman Empire by the author, all available from Harvard] cover much of the history of the classical world, and do so with both ease and authority... For this new series they have been revised or otherwise brought up to date.--Washington Post Book World
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conversations.value: The Later Roman Empire
  The successes I have mentioned were admittedly the work of his excellent generals, but the personal exploits of a man of such quick understanding and long military experience were undoubtedly numerous. Among these none would have been more glorious than to take that formidable figure king Macrianus alive. Valentinian made great efforts to do this when he heard to his distress and sorrow that Macrianus had escaped from the Burgundians, whom he had himself put in motion against the Alamanni.
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conversations.value: AMPELIUS (3) Antiochene, former master of offices and proconsul, prefect of Rome 371–2; a voluptuary, but tried to control taverns (28.4); prefect during trials conducted by Maximin (28.1).
  ANATOLIUS (3) Native of Beirut, governor of Syria in 349 and friend of Libanius; refused city prefecture of Rome in 355. Prefect of Illyricum 357–60, praised by A. for lightening tax burden (19.11); died in office (21.6).
  ANATOLIUS (5) Pagan and close friend of Julian; appointed by him master of offices (20.9); with Julian on Persian expedition, killed in same battle (25.3); body later found and buried (25.6).
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conversations.value: URSULUS Treasurer under Constantius; stops calumnies at court in 356–7 by outspokenness (16.8); earns hatred of military by remark on fall of Amida (20.11); despite putting funds at Julian's disposal in Gaul, condemned by commission of Chalcedon (22.3).
  VADOMAR King of Alamanni on Upper Rhine, attacked by Constantius (14.10); his subjects invade Gaul in 357 (16.12); makes peace with Julian in 359 (18.2); attacks Gaul in 361, suspected of acting on Constantius' orders and arrested (21.3–4); later governs Phoenicia (21.3); sent by Valens against Procopius (26.8); skirmishes with Persians in 371 (29.1). Father of Vithicab (30–7).
  VENUSTUS (Volusius V. 5) Of noble birth, on senatorial embassy to Julian and appointed governor of Spain (23.1); on senatorial embassy to Valentinian and persuades him senators should not be tortured (28.1.24–5). Father of famous pagan Nicomachus Flavianus (Flavian).
  VICTOR (4) Commander under Julian in Persia (24.1, 4 and 6); looks for successor to Julian (25.5); promoted master of cavalry by Jovian (26.5); serves Valens (26.5, 27.5, 30.2); helps Valens at Adrianople (31.12 and 13). Consul 369. Friend of Libanius, Catholic of Sarmatian origin; name often coupled with Arintheus. Presumably known to A.
  VIVENTIUS Pannonian, quaestor 364, conducts investigations into magic (26.4); prefect of Rome 365, fails to quell Christian riots (27.3); prefect of Gaul 368–71 (cf. 30.5).
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conversations.value: URSULUS Treasurer under Constantius; stops calumnies at court in 356–7 by outspokenness (16.8); earns hatred of military by remark on fall of Amida (20.11); despite putting funds at Julian's disposal in Gaul, condemned by commission of Chalcedon (22.3).
  VADOMAR King of Alamanni on Upper Rhine, attacked by Constantius (14.10); his subjects invade Gaul in 357 (16.12); makes peace with Julian in 359 (18.2); attacks Gaul in 361, suspected of acting on Constantius' orders and arrested (21.3–4); later governs Phoenicia (21.3); sent by Valens against Procopius (26.8); skirmishes with Persians in 371 (29.1). Father of Vithicab (30–7).
  VENUSTUS (Volusius V. 5) Of noble birth, on senatorial embassy to Julian and appointed governor of Spain (23.1); on senatorial embassy to Valentinian and persuades him senators should not be tortured (28.1.24–5). Father of famous pagan Nicomachus Flavianus (Flavian).
  VICTOR (4) Commander under Julian in Persia (24.1, 4 and 6); looks for successor to Julian (25.5); promoted master of cavalry by Jovian (26.5); serves Valens (26.5, 27.5, 30.2); helps Valens at Adrianople (31.12 and 13). Consul 369. Friend of Libanius, Catholic of Sarmatian origin; name often coupled with Arintheus. Presumably known to A.
  VIVENTIUS Pannonian, quaestor 364, conducts investigations into magic (26.4); prefect of Rome 365, fails to quell Christian riots (27.3); prefect of Gaul 368–71 (cf. 30.