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[[1]}Magnentius' full name: Wm Ensslin, RE 14, s.v. "Magnentius (1)," col. 445ff; such variations as Magnus Magnentius(ILS, 743; CIL, 2.4791, 8.22284, 13.0135), Maximus Magnentius(ILS, 741; CIL, 2.4820), or Gaius Magnus Magnentius(ILS, 744) appear on inscriptions.
Details of Magnentius' career and his movements as well as the sources that treat these events include J.Bidez, "Amiens, ville natale de l'empereur Magnence," REA, 27(1925), 312ff, Dietmar Kienast, Römische Kaisertabelle, [Darmstadt, 1990], 314ff, T.Barnes, Athanasius and Constantius: Theology and Politics in the Constantinian Empire, (Cambridge, 1993),101ff and A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale, and J. Morris, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, [Cambridge, 1971], s.v. "Fl. Magnus Magnentius" 1.532
For a discussion of Constans' death, see Michael DiMaio, Zonaras' Account of the Neo-Flavian Emperors: A Commentary, (Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1977), 279-280, nn. 7-11; for a discussion of the sources that deal with this chain of events, see idem., , "Smoke in the Wind: Zonaras' Use of Philostorgius, Zosimus, John of Antioch, and John of Rhodes in his Narrative on the Neo-Flavian Emperors," Byzantion, 58(1988), 242ff; for a discussion of the reconstruction of Magnentius' acclamation and the sources that treat it, see idem., "History and Myth in Zonaras' Epitome Historiarum: The Chronographer as Editor," BS/EB 10(1983), 25ff.
[[2]]For a discussion of the activities of Magnentius after the death of Constans, see O. Seeck, RE 4, s.v. "Constantius (4)," col. 1062ff, Ensslin, RE 14, 446.46ff, and Barnes, Athanasius and Constantius,101ff
[[3]]For a discussion of the activities of Magnentius after the death of Constans, Seeck, RE 4, col. 1063.1ff, Ensslin, RE 14, 447.1ff, and W. Reidinger, RE 82, s.v. "Vetranio (1)," col. 1838.57ff.
[[4]]For a discussion of the events leading up to the Battle of Mursa, see Seeck, RE 4, col. 1067.11ff, Ensslin, RE 14, 449.40ff
For a reconstruction of the Battle of Mursa and the sources that treat it, see DiMaio, "Smoke in the Wind: Zonaras' Use of Philostorgius, Zosimus, John of Antioch, and John of Rhodes in his Narrative on the Neo-Flavian Emperors," Byzantion, 58(1988), 245ff
[[5]]Basing his conclusions on chronology and papyrological evidence, Frakes has argued that Magnentius was not responsible for this assassination attempt on Gallus, an assertiion which flys in the face of comments of Zonaras (Robert M. Frakes, "Ammianus Marcellinus and Zonaras on a Late Roman Assassination Plot," Historia 46 (1997), 121ff.
For a discussion of the closing months of Magnentius' reign, see Seeck, RE 4, col. 1071.30ff, Ensslin, RE 14, 451.60ff, and Barnes, Athanasius and Constantius, 105ff; for a discussion of the sources that treat the matter, see DiMaio, Byzantion, 58(1988), 246ff