69 ([return])
[ Aurelius Victor. Jornandes de Rebus Geticis, c. 21.]
70 ([return])
[ Aurelius Victor says, “Per Armeniam in hostes contendit, quæ fermo sola, seu facilior vincendi via est.” He followed the conduct of Trajan, and the idea of Julius Cæsar.]
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[ Xenophon’s Anabasis, l. iii. For that reason the Persian cavalry encamped sixty stadia from the enemy.]
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[ The story is told by Ammianus, l. xxii. Instead of saccum, some read scutum.]
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[ The Persians confessed the Roman superiority in morals as well as in arms. Eutrop. ix. 24. But this respect and gratitude of enemies is very seldom to be found in their own accounts.]