 However his work, sensationalist or not, must have contained much valuable information.The "HA"’s narration of the assassination of Elagabalus, well told and full of authentic-seeming circumstantial detail, is generally considered to derive from Marius Maximus.There has long been a school of thought that holds that the lives of the Emperors Hadrian to Elagabalus in the "HA" employ Marius as their primary source material.