Note 075 Civitas inexpugnabilis, facinus audax et importunum. Ammianus, xxiv. 7. His fellow-soldier, Eutropius, turns aside from the difficulty: Assyriamque populatus, castra apud Ctesiphontem stativa aliquandiu habuit: remeansque victor, etc., x. 16 [8]. Zosimus is artful or ignorant, and Socrates inaccurate.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 24