(17) Warren Treadgold, The Early Byzantine Historians, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
    (18) 本文引用的六位晚期古典作家及相关基督教作家的文本一般采用英语学术界较为通用的洛布古典丛书(Loeb Classical Library)希腊文、拉丁文与英文对照本，适当参考其他英文译注本。攸纳皮乌斯、奥林匹奥多鲁斯的作品仅存残篇，未被洛布古典丛书收录，笔者采用了R. C. Blockley于1983年编辑出版的希腊文、英文对照及注释本。塔西佗、卢西安等人的部分作品在中文学术界已有质量较高的标准译本，笔者均引用这些版本中的相关译文。
    (19) Alain Gowing, Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 11.
    (20) 另有学者认为，传统上认为成于众手、创作年代不一的传记汇编作品《奥古斯都后诸帝传》(Scriptores Historiae Augustae)也是由4世纪末的一位多神教史学家独立完成的，但学术界对此尚无一致意见。参见Averil Cameron and Peter Garnsey, The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. XIII, The Late Empire, A. D. 337-425, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 685.
    (21) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, Introduction, p. xiv, with an English translation by John C. Rolfe, Loeb classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1935.
    (22) Averil Cameron and Alan Cameron, “Christianity and Tradition in the Historiography of the Late Empire,” The Classical Quarterly, New Series, vol. 14, no. 2 (Nov. 1964), p. 316.
    (23) Warren Treadgold, The Early Byzantine Historians, p. 56.
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    (26) Warren Treadgold, The Early Byzantine Historians, pp. 90, 92.
    (27) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 21.2.4-5.
    (28) G.W. Bowersock, JuLian the Apostate, p. 71.
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    (34) Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Classical Dictionary, p. 337.
    (35) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 16.10.5-7.
    (36) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 16.10.8.
    (37) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 16.10.9.
    (38) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 16.10.13.
    (39) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 16.10.14.
    (40) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 16.10.15.
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    (42) Claudian, On Stilicho's Consulship, 2. 377-407.
    (43) Claudian, On Stilicho's Consulship, 3.65-71.
    (44) R.C. Blockley, ed., The Fragmentary Classicising Historians of the Late Roman Empire, vol. Ⅱ, p.205.
    (45) Julian, To George, a Revenue Official, 377A-B.
    (46) Julian, To George, a Revenue Official, 377C.
    (47) Julian, The Caesars, 326A-B.
    (48) Julian, The Caesars, 328C-D.
    (49) Julian, To the Cynic Heracleios, 225D-226A.
    (50) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, Introduction, pp. xvi-xvii.
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    (52) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 14.6.5.
    (53) Ammianus Marcellinus, History of Rome, 14.6.6.
    (54) Libanius, Orations, 49.33.
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    (57) Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History, 5.18.
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