114. Ammianus was the last subject of Rome who composed a
profane history in the Latin language. The Easts in the next
century, produced some rhetorical historians, Zosimus,
Olympiodorus, Malchus, Candidus, etc. See Vossius de
Historicis Gracis, l. ii. c. 18; de Historicis Latinis, 1.
ii. c. 10, etc.