ABBREVIATIONS

Act. Ab.

Passio sanctorum Dativi, Saturnini presbyteri et aliorum. (Acts of the Abitinean Martyrs)

Gesta con. Carth.

Gesta Collationis Carthaginiensis cum Donatistis, AD 411 (Acts of the Council of Carthage with the Donatists in 411)

Amm.

Ammianus Marcellinus, Latin historian, 4th century AD

Apul. Met.

Apuleius of Madaura, Latin prose writer, 2nd century AD, Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass

Aristid. Or.

Aelius Aristides, Greek orator, 2nd century AD, Orations

Artem. On.

Artemidorus Daldianus, author of a work on dream interpretation, 2nd century AD, Onirocriticus (The Interpretation of Dreams)

Ath.

Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, 4th century AD

Apol. Contra Ar.

Apologia contra Arianos (Defense against the Arians)

Epist. AD ep. Aeg.

Epistula AD episcopos Aegypti et Libyae

et Lib.

(Encyclical Letter to the Bishops of Egypt and Libya)

Hist. Ar.

Historia Arianorum AD Monachos (History of the Arians for the Monks)

De synod.

De Synodis (Concerning the Councils of the Church)

Aug.

Augustine of Hippo, bishop and writer, AD 354–430

Ad Donat.

Ad Donatistas post collationem (Against the Donatist party after the Council)

Breviculus

Breviculus collationis cum Donatistis (Summary of the Council with the Donatists)

C. Cresc.

Contra Cresconium (Against Cresconius)

C. Parm.

Contra epistulam Parmeniani (Against the Letter of Parmenian)

C. litt. Petil.

Contra litteras Petiliani (Against the Letters of Petilianus)

Ep.

Epistulae (Letters)

Aur. Vict., De Caes.

Aurelius Victor, Latin historian, 4th century CE, De Caesaribus (Concerning the Emperors)

[Aur. Vict.] Epit.

Pseudo Aurelius Victor, Latin historian, 4th century CE, Epitome De Caesaribus (Short History Concerning the Emperors)

Chron. Pasc.

Chronicon Paschale (Easter Chronicle), chronicle of world history from Creation to ca. AD 630

Const. Orat.

Constantine, emperor AD 306–337, Oratio ad Sanctos (Speech to the Assembly of the Holy)

Cyp. Ep.

Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, AD 249–258, Epistulae (Letters)

Dio

Cassius Dio, Greek historian of Rome, ca. 164–after AD 229

Epiph. Pan.

Epiphanius of Salamis, Christian writer 4th–5th centuries AD, Panarion (Medicine Chest)

Eunap. VP

Eunapius of Sardis, Greek sophist and historian, 4th century CE, Vitae Philosopharum (Lives of the Philosophers)

Eunap.

Eunapius, History, ed. Blockley

Euseb.

Eusebius of Caesarea, bishop and scholar, ca. AD 260–339

HE

Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

LC

De Laudibus Constantini (In Praise of Constantine)

MP

Martyrs of Palestine

VC

Vita Constantini (Life of Constantine)

Eutrop. Brev.

Eutropius, Latin historian, 4th century AD, Breviarium ab urbe condita (Brief History of Rome from its Foundation)

Festus, Brev.

Festus, Latin historian, 4th century AD, Breviarium (Brief History)

Firm Mat. Math.

Firmicius Maternus, 4th-century AD writer in astrology and religion, Mathesis

Fronto, Ant.

M. Cornelius Fronto, orator and tutor of Marcus Aurelius, ca. 95–ca. 166 CE, Letters to Antoninus Pius

GL

Grammatici Latini

HA

Historia Augusta, anon. history of Rome, 4th or 5th century CE

Aurelian

Life of Aurelian

Cari, Carini et Num.

Lives of Carus, Carinus and Numerian

Herod.

Herodian, Greek historian of Rome, 3rd century AD, History of the Empire from the Time of Marcus

Jord. Get.

Jordanes, historian of the 6th century AD, Getica (History of the Goths)

Jos. BJ

Josephus, 1st century AD, Bellum Judaicum (Jewish War)

Jul.

Julian “the Apostate,” Emperor 361–363 CE

Caes.

Caesares

Or.

Orations

Lact.

Lactantius, Christian apologist, ca. AD 240–ca. AD 320,

DMP

de Mortibus Persecutorum (Concerning the Deaths of the Persecutors)

DI

Insitutes Divinae (Divine Institutes)

Lib. Or.

Libanius, Greek rhetorician, AD 314–ca. AD 393, Orations

Lk

The Gospel According to Luke

Luc.

Lucian of Samosata, Greek prose writer, b. c. 120 AD

Alex.

Alexander the False Prophet

Nigr.

Nigrinus

M. Theod.

Martyrdom of Saint Theodotus of Ancyra

Mal.

John Malalas, Greek chronographer, ca. AD 490–570s, Chronographia (Chronicle)

Marc. Aurel. Med.

Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor AD 161–180, Meditations

Opt. Tract.

Optatus of Milevis, Against the Donatists

Or.

Origo Constantini imperatoris (Descent of the Emperor Constantine)

Or. C. Cels.

Origen, Alexandrian priest and scholar, probably AD 184/5–254/5, Contra Celsum (Against Celsus)

Oros. Contra Pagan.

Orosius, Christian Roman historian of the 5th century AD, Historia Contra Paganos (History against the Pagans)

P. Ath.

Passion of Athenogenes

Pan.

Latin Panegyrics

Pet. Patr.

Petrus Patricius, Historiae (Histories, ed. Müller FGH)

Philostr.

Philostratus of Athens, Greek sophist and writer, d. c. AD 244–249

VA

Vita Apollonii (In honor of Apollonius of Tyana)

VS

Vitae Sophistarum (Lives of the Sophists)

Phil. HE

Philostorgius, Christian writer 5th century AD, Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Plin. HN

Pliny the Elder, Roman politician and scholar, AD 23/4–79, Historia Naturalis (Natural History)

Plin. Ep.

Pliny the Younger, Roman politician, ca. AD 61–ca. AD 12, Epistulae (Letters)

Procop. Aed.

Procopius, Greek historian, 6th century AD, De Aedificiis (Concerning Buildings)

Socr. HE

Socrates of Constantinople, Greek historian, 5th century AD, Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Soz. HE

Sozomen, Greek historian, 5th century AD, Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Suet. Jul.

Suetonius, Latin biographer, ca. AD 70–ca. AD 130, Life of Julius Caesar

T. Theos.

Theosophiae Tubingensis (Tübingen Theosophy)

Tac. Agr.

Tacitus, Roman historian, ca. AD 56–after ca. AD 118, Agricola

Theod. HE

Theodoret, Christian historian 5th century AD, Historia Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiastical History)

Theoph. Chron.

Theophanes, Chronographia (chronicle of world history from AD 284–813)

Zon.

Johannes Zonaras, Byzantine historian, 12th century AD, Epitome of the Histories from the Creation to 1118

Zos.

Zosimus, Greek historian, late 5th–6th century AD, New History

Documentary and Legal Texts

D.

Digesta (The Digest, massive survey of Roman juristic writing from the time of Justinian, 6th century AD)

CIL

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

CJ

Codex Justinianus

CTh

Codex Theodosianus

Coll.

Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum (Comparison of the Laws of Moses and the Romans)

Consult.

Consultatio (Consultation; advice from a jurist to an advocate)

Frag. Vat.

Fragmenta Vaticana (Vatican Fragments; quotations of Roman legal texts preserved in a Vatican manuscript)

IGBR

Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria Repertae

ILS

Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae

IRT

Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

PE

Price edict ed. Lauffer

P. Bon.

Papyri Bononienses, ed. O. Montevecchi. Milan 1953

P. Oslo

Papyri Osloenses. Oslo.

P. Oxy.

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri

P. Panop. Beatty

Papyri from Panopolis in the Chester Beatty Library Dublin, ed. T.C. Skeat. Dublin 1964

PSI

Papiri greci e latini. (Pubblicazioni della Società Italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto)

P. Ryl.

Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

Select Papyri

Select Papyri (The Loeb Classical Library).

TAM

Tituli Asiae Minoris

Reference Works

FGH

Fragmenta Graecorum Historicorum (ed. Müller)

FGrH

Die Fragmente der grieschischen Historiker (ed. Jacoby)

PIR2

Prosopographia Imperii Romani (2nd edition)

PLRE

The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire

Journals

AJA

American Journal of Archaeology

AJP

American Journal of Philology

AS

Anatolian Studies

AugStud

Augustinian Studies

BICS

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

BMCR

Bryn Mawr Classical Review

BZ

Byzantinische Zeitschrift

HTR

Harvard Theological Review

GRBS

Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies

JEH

Journal of Ecclesiastical History

JLA

Journal of Late Antiquity

JQR

Jewish Quarterly Review

JRS

Journal of Roman Studies

JTS

Journal of Theological Studies

MAAR

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome

MEFRA

Mélanges de l’École Française de Rome

PBSR

Papers of the British School at Rome

RhM

Rheinisches Museum für Philologie

ZPE

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik