MarcellinusМарцеллин

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Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.

February 1515 февраля
2. Слова истины всегда без украшений и просты.
Марцеллин.
2. The words of truth are always unadorned and simple.
Marcellinus.
Probably from Res gestae · reworded by Tolstoy .
Not in Leo Tolstoy as Editor
The signature most likely means Ammianus Marcellinus, whose line on simple truth is close in thought, but the ascription is not confirmed.
Original · Latin
Veritas enim absoluta semper ac perquam est simplex.
Source text: thelatinlibrary.com
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A likely source, not certain. Res gestae, XIV.10.13.
«Марцеллин» is most likely Ammianus Marcellinus; the Jubilee name index has no entry for it. In Constantius's speech to the soldiers: "for truth, set out plainly, is always quite simple" (an echo of Euripides, Phoenissae 469). Tolstoy's "words of truth" and "without ornament" are not in the Latin. A public-domain English (Yonge, 1862) was not saved.
Translation note. Tolstoy gives the name alone; whom it names is uncertain.