Battle involving Magnentius at Mursa
The consular notices place a battle involving Magnentius at Morsa (Mursa) in AD 351.
What this does and does not establish
The Latin Library transcription labels the work Hydatii episcopi descriptio consulum; Mommsen’s parallel text is headed Consularia Constantinopolitana and is another edition of the same chronicle, not independent corroboration. Its OCR interleaves Latin and Greek columns and corrupts letters; neighboring apparatus and sigla are not narrative. Eutropius X.12 separately names Mursa (apud Mursam). The Latin notice spells the site Morsa.
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- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- AD 351, September
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read the complete physical row 1 of consularia351.txt and the complete native annual row 819 of fasti-native.htm. The explicit 351 heading and post-consular designation follow 350 Sergio et Nigriniano (row 818) and precede 352 Constantio V et Constantio Caes. (row 820). Roman inclusive reckoning makes IV kal. Octob. September 28; the record retains year-level precision, AD 351. Examined mommsen-1892.txt rows 31537, 31539 and 31541 in full with neighboring text and apparatus, including the following 352 and 353 headings, and eutropius-x.htm row 99 in full with neighboring passages. Original quotation begins at line 1, character 38.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Consularia Constantinopolitana (Fasti Hydatiani)
Late antique consular chronicle transmitted under the name of Hydatius; individual authorship uncertain
Quoted text (Latin)
His conss. bellum Magnentii fuit Morsa die IV kal. Octob.AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Under these consuls, the battle of Magnentius took place at Morsa on the fourth day before the Kalends of October.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Consularia Constantinopolitana (Fasti Hydatiani), Latin Library transcription; compare Mommsen, Chronica minora I (1892); project English translation.
Exact source version
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