Severe mortality strikes Italy
The anonymous continuation places severe mortality devastating Italy under 543.
What this does and does not establish
Anonymous continuation. Italy explicitly establishes Europe. The exact OCR reads 'Mortaiitas' and 'solura'; the translation interprets these as mortalitas and solum. The apparatus gives solum against witness T's earlier soluit. The adjoining words say the East and Illyricum had already been afflicted; Victor places a general mortality notice under 542, so these accounts do not establish one identical outbreak date.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Environment, health and technology
- 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
- 543, after Basil's consulship, year three; month unspecified
- 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
In chronicaminorasa11momm.txt, read lines 9083–9112 and apparatus 9145–9157. The explicit heading '543 VI POST CONSVLATVM BASILII ANNO III' at 9093 governs the clause at 9096, before the 544 heading at 9103. Read Victor's neighboring mortality notice at 18927–18932, following his 542 heading at 18856. Marius's corresponding second postconsular year, indiction VI, is at 21440.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Anonymous continuation of Marcellinus
Anonymous continuator
Quoted text (Latin)
Mortaiitas magna Italiae solura devastat,AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
Great mortality devastates the soil of Italy,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Anonymous continuation of Marcellinus, Mommsen 1894, MGH AA 11, Internet Archive OCR; project working translation.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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Revision s501_west_541_545_543_2
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