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[5] But let us come to our subject.

Maximinus, who formerly held the office of vice- 1 prefect at Rome, was born at Sopianae, a town of Valeria, 2 of very humble parents, his father being an accountant in the governor's office 3 and sprung from ancestors who were Carpi, a people whom Diocletian drove from its ancient abode 4 and transferred to Pannonia.

1 368 A.D.

2 Formerly a part of Pannonia (cf. xix. 11, 4).

3 Cf. praesidialis apparitor, xvii. 3, 6.

4 I.e., from Dacia, 294–6.

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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