ched the forts of Corduena, a rich region belonging to
us, only one hundred miles from the spot where these transactions were
being carried on.

9. But Sapor obstinately demanded (to use his own language) the
restoration of those territories which had been taken from him by
Maximian; but as was seen in the progress of the negotiation, he in
reality required, as the price of our redemption, five provinces on the
other side of the Tigris,--Arzanena, Moxoena, Zabdicena, Rehemena, and
Corduena, with fifteen fortresses, besides Nisibis, and Singara, and the
important fortress called the camp of the Moors.

10. And though it would have been better to fight ten battles than to
give up one of them, still a set of flatterers harassed our
pusillanimous emperor with harping on the dreaded name of Procopius, and
affirmed that unless we quickly recrossed the river, that chieftain, as
soon as he heard of the death of Julian, would easily bring about a
revolution which no one could resist, by means of the fresh troops which
he had under his command.

11. Jovian, being wrought upon by the constant reiteration of these
evil counsels, without further delay gave up everything that was
demanded, with this abatement, which he obtained with difficulty, that
the inhabitants of Nisibis and Singara should not be given up to the
Persians as well as the cities themselves; and that the Roman garrisons
in the forts about to be surrendered should be permitted to retire to
fortresses of our own.

12. To which another mischievous and unfair condition was added, that
after this treaty was concluded we were not to be at liberty to assist
Arsaces against the Persians, if he implored our aid, though he had
always been our friend and trusty ally. And this was insisted on by
Sapor for two reasons, in order that the man might be punished who had
laid waste Chiliocomum at the emperor's command, and also that facility
might be given for invading Armenia without a check. In consequence of
this it fell out subsequently that Arsaces was taken prisoner, and that,
amid different dissensions and disturbances, the Parthians laid violent
hands on the greater portion of Armenia, where it borders on Media, and
on the town of Artaxata.

13. This ignoble treaty being made, that nothing might be done during
the armistice, in contravention of its terms, some men of rank were
given as hostages on each side: on ours, Remora, Victor, and
Bellovaedius, tribunes of disting