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Alexander Severus contained in the extant works of ancient historians are essentially insufficient, and information on many of the questions of his history has to be sought from other sources. Circumstances have conspired in several ways to obscure the Emperor shistory. With one exception contemporary writers possessed little insight or ability, and Dio, the exception, practically closed his narrative with the death of Elagabalus. Later writers, also Wth one exception, A vere mere compilers, and though Ammianus Marcellinus, the exception, began his history of Rome with Nerva, the early books epitomising the history of the first two hundred and fifty seven years are lost. The loss of Ammianus is not indeed so regrettable as would appear, for while the books which are preserved embody a full and reliable history of his own times ,the thirteen lost books were rather in the nature of a superficial resume, and their value would Be it said once and for all that Severus Alexander is historically a more correct name than Alexander Severus :r. Appendix III. ad fin. In this Essay however I have not thought it desirable to discard the accepted modern order. For the most part I have designated the Emperor simply A lexander. -H ewas born in 330 a.d., and his history ends with the year 378 ..d. H.
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