Ammianus was the last subject of Rome who composed a profane history in the Latin language. The Easts in the next century, produced some rhetorical historians, Zosimus, Olympiodorus, Malchus, Candidus, etc. See Vossius de Historicis Gracis, l. ii. c. 18; de Historicis Latinis, 1. ii. c. 10, etc.