Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXV, chapter 9, section 13

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[13] Procopius set out to fulfil his mission, ¹ but immediately after burying the body he disappeared and in spite of the most careful search could not be found anywhere, ² until long afterwards he suddenly appeared at Constantinople, clad in the purple.

1 Or perhaps, on the analogy of exsequiae, “on his mournful errand,” or “for the funeral.”

2 He perhaps wished to escape the fate of Jovianus; see 8, 18.

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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