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[5] While these things were thus happening, at Rome Artemius, who held the office of vice-prefect, [p. 369] also succeeded Bassus, 1 who a short time after he had been promoted to be prefect of the city had died a natural death. His administration suffered from mutinous disturbances, but had no remarkable incident which is worth relating.

1 Junius Bassus died in 359; according to Prudentius, contra Symm. i. 559, he was the first of his family to become a Christian.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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