ABSTRACT
For obvious reasons, Ammianus does not figure largely in the historiography of Constantine, the books which dealt with him having perished. References in the surviving books are so varied in content and significance that it is difficult to form a view of how he felt about that emperor. In general, he is nothing if not judgemental about every leading figure from emperors downwards, but all are his own contemporaries. From our perspective we assume that Constantine was always a controversial emperor and take it that Ammianus must have commented, even obliquely, about his change of religion or about aspects of his administration which might be associated with it. But the Latin epitomators of his own generation are almost entirely discreet about this (and for that matter on the persecution of the Christians by Diocletian and Galerius).
