iculty of the roads which led into their country, and
which no prince within their recollection had ever penetrated. He,
however, easily surmounted all difficulties, and having put many to the
sword and taken many prisoners, he granted the survivors peace at their
request, thinking such a course best for their neighbours.

3. Then with equal celerity he repassed the river, and examining
carefully the state of the garrisons on the frontier, and putting them
in a proper state, he marched towards Basle; and having recovered the
places which the barbarians had taken and still retained in their hands,
and having carefully strengthened them, he went to Vienne, passing
through Besancon, and there took up his winter quarters.

XI.

Sec. 1. These were the events which took place in Gaul, and while they were
thus conducted with prudence and good fortune, Constantius, having
summoned Arsaces, king of Armenia, and having received him with great
courtesy, advised and exhorted him to continue friendly and faithful to
us.

2. For he had heard that the king of Persia had often tried by deceits
and threats, and all kinds of stratagems, to induce him to forsake the
Roman alliance and join his party.

3. But he, vowing with many oaths that he would rather lose his life
than change his opinion, received ample rewards, and returned to his
kingdom with the retinue which he brought with him; and never ventured
at any subsequent time to break any of his promises, being bound by
many ties of gratitude to Constantius. The strongest tie of all being
that the emperor had given him for a wife, Olympias, the daughter of
Abladius, formerly prefect of the praetorium, who had once been betrothed
to his own brother Constans.

4. And when Arsaces had been dismissed, Constantius left Cappadocia, and
going by Melitina, a town of the lesser Armenia, and Lacotene, and
Samosata, he crossed the Euphrates and arrived at Edessa. Stopping some
time in each town, while waiting for divisions of soldiers who were
flocking in from all quarters, and for sufficient supplies of
provisions. And after the autumnal equinox, he proceeded onwards on his
way to Amida.

5. When he approached the walls of that town, and saw everything buried
in ashes, he groaned and wept, recollecting what sufferings the wretched
city had suffered. And Ursulus, the treasurer, who happened to be
present, was moved with indignation, and exclaimed, "Behold the courage
with which cities