again
make trouble for the city, killed John, and in this way stopped the
confusion. Such, then, was the progress of events touching this tyranny.
FOOTNOTES:
[1]
Cf. _Iliad_ xi. 385 [Greek: toxota, lobeter, kerai aglae, parthenopipa],
the only place where [Greek: toxotes] occurs in Homer.
[2]
Cf. _Iliad_ v. 192.
[3]
Cf. _Iliad_ viii. 267; xi. 371.
[4]
Cf. _Iliad_ iv. 113.
[5]
Cf. _Iliad_ iv. 123.
[6]
Cf. _Iliad_ xi. 390.
[7]
The trench crossed the plain in an approximately straight line. The army
of the Ephthalitae were drawn up behind it, facing the advancing
Persians, while a few of them went out beyond the trench to draw the
attack of the Persians.
[8]
Cf. Thuc. ii. 76, 4.
[9]
Cf. Book VII. xxvi. 4.
[10]
Cf. Thuc. i. 128.
[11]
A division of no fixed number.
[12]
Cf. Book I. ii. 15.
[13]
Modern Erzeroum.
[14]
_i.e._ "by force."
[15]
Cf. Book VIII. xiii. 15.
[16]
Cf. _Iliad_ xxiv. 348; _Odyssey_ x. 279.
[17]
Lebanon.
[18]
Roman formation.
_a--a, trench._
1. Bouzes and Pharas.
2. Sunicas and Aigan.
3. John, Cyril, Marcellus, Germanus, and Dorotheus.
4. Simmas and Ascan.
5. Belisarius and Hermogenes.
[Illustration: Roman formation.]
1. 3.
(h)======= |----| ===========
hill 2.--| 5. |--4.
a__________| |__________a
=================
[19]
Cf. Book I. x. 2.
[20]
Cf. Book I. xii. 21.
[21]
Cf. Book I. xiii. 2.
[22]
"Euphratesia"; cf. section 2.
[23]
Title meaning a patrician. See Index.
[24]
Ch. xiv. 28-54.
[25]
The coast described here is that of Arabia.
[26]
Rather the "Arabian Gulf."
[27]
Cf. ch. xv. 31.
[28]
In Latin _serica_, as coming from the Chinese (Seres).
[29]
Cf. chap. xvi. 7.
[30]
Cf. Book II. xvii.
[31]
_i.e._ "Conquer."
[32]
Book VI. xxx. 30.
HISTORY OF THE WARS: BOOK II
THE PERSIAN WAR (_Continued_)
HISTORY OF THE WARS: BOOK II
THE PERSIAN WAR (_Continued_)
I
Not long after this Chosroes, upon learning that Belisarius had begun to
win Italy also for the Emperor Justinian, was no longer able to restrain
his thoughts but he wished to discover pretexts, in order that he might
break the treaty on some grounds which would seem plausible. And he
conferred with Alamoundaras concern
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