Ursicinus (Roman General)

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The Roman General Ursicinus was the master of cavalry (magister equitum) in the near-East c.349-359 (Wallace-Hadrill 1986: 486). In 353 Ammianus Marcellinus was attached to the command of Ursicinus at his headquarters in Nisibis (A.M. 14.9.1, 3; Thompson 1969: 3). He was recalled from Nisibis in 354 by the Caesar Gallus to take part in the investigation of treason in Antioch (Matthews 1989: 34). Ursicinus was dismissed after the destruction of Amida (Diyarbakır in modern-Turkey) in 359 (Trombley 1999: 20), for which he was officially blamed (A.M. 20.2.2-5; Barnes 1998: 63).

The Roman historian, Ammianus Marcellinus, revered Ursicinus and his account is greatly biased towards him.

References

Barnes, T. D. (1998) Ammianus Marcellinus and the Representation of Historical Reality (Ithaca and London).

Matthews, J. (1989) The Roman Empire of Ammianus (London).

Seyfarth, W. (1978 – reprinted 1999) Ammiani Marcellini Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, 2 vols (Berlin).

Thompson, E.A. (1969) The Historical Work of Ammianus Marcellinus (Groningen).

Trombley, F., "Ammianus Marcellinus and fourth-century warfare: a protector's approach to historical narrative", in J.W. Drijvers & D. Hunt (eds) (1999) The Late Roman World and its Historian (London).

Wallace-Hadrill, A. (1986) Ammianus Marcellinus. The Later Roman Empire (AD 354-378) (Harmondsworth).

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