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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 2839328, member: 5682&quot;]I agree Marcellinus is a great (and relatively easy) read. Not only does he give great descriptions of battles, he also give insightful social contexts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s Marcellinus&#039; quote about the war with the Alamanni (Book XVI)</p><p><br /></p><p>(Chapter 12.46)</p><p><i>But the Alamanni, who enter eagerly into wars, made all the greater effort, as if to destroy utterly everything in their way by a kind of fit of rage. Yet darts and javelins did not cease to fly, with showers of iron-tipped arrows, although at close quarters also blade clashed on blade and breastplates were cleft with the sword; the wounded too, before all their blood was shed, rose up to some more conspicuous deed of daring. For in a way the combatants were evenly matched; the Alamanni were stronger and taller, our soldiers disciplined by long practice; they were savage and uncontrollable, our men quiet and wary, these relying on their courage, while the Germans presumed upon their huge size. Yet frequently the Roman,&nbsp; driven from his post by the weight of armed men, rose up again; and the savage, with his legs giving way from fatigue, would drop on his bended left knee and even thus attack his foe, a proof of extreme resolution. </i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/home.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/home.html" rel="nofollow">http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ammian/home.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Good stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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