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Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 29.2.28


nanIn the bath a young man was seen to touch alternately with the fingers of either hand first the marble Of the wall or perhaps the floor of the bath. and then his breast, and to count the seven vowels, Of the Greek alphabet. thinking it a helpful remedy for a stomach trouble. He was haled into court, tortured and beheaded.


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1. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 19.12.14, 29.2.4 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

19.12.14. For if anyone wore on his neck an amulet against the quartan ague or any other complaint, or was accused by the testimony of the evil-disposed of passing by a grave in the evening, on the ground that he was a dealer in poisons, or a gatherer of the horrors of tombs and the vain illusions of the ghosts that walk there, he was condemned to capital punishment and so perished. 29.2.4. As a result, throughout the oriental provinces owners of books, through fear of a like fate, burned their entire libraries; so great was the terror that had seized upon all. Cf. also Zos. iv. 14. In this way Valens greatly diminished our knowledge of the ancient writers, in particular of the philosophers. Indeed, to speak briefly, at that time we all crept about as if in Cimmerian darkness, See xxviii. 4, 18, note. feeling the same fears as the guests of the Sicilian Dionysius, who, while filled to repletion with banquets more terrible than any possible hunger, saw with a shudder the swords hanging over their heads from the ceilings of the rooms in which they reclined and held only by single horsehairs. Cf. Cic., Tusc. Disp. v. 21, 61 f.


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admission fees, dangers in Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
admission fees, facades, entrances, gates and Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
admission fees, fire hazards Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
admission fees, heating system and wood supply/storage Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
angels Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
apodyterium Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
aramaic Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
bathhouse activities in Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
body, gestures Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
cairo genizah Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
charms Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
christians Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
conspiracy Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
constantius ii Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
curse tablets Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
defensores civitatum Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
demons Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
denunciation Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
divination Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
excursus (or digression) Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
execution, capital punishment, death penalty Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
executions Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
fate Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
fire Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
glass Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
hebrew Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
industry Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
jews Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
jovian Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
judaism, and graeco-roman culture Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
julian (emperor) Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
julians centrality in ammianus narrative Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
libraries Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
magic, miracles, and magicians Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
magic Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
magic trials (in antioch) Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
marble Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
medicine and medical services, in baths Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
narratology, authorial voice Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
narratology Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
omens Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
persia Ruiz and Puertas, Emperors and Emperorship in Late Antiquity: Images and Narratives (2021) 114
philosophers Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
pottery Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
salamander Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
sandals Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
scrolls Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
sefer ha-razim Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
sorcerers Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
spells Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
splendor and beauty, thieves in' Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
sword of damocles Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
treason Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 66
valens Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245
water Eliav, A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 245