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Now the king of the Persians, the famous 1 Sapor, now aged, 2 and from the very outset of his reign given over to the pleasure of plunder, after the death of the emperor Julian and the shameful treaty of peace that was struck, 3 for a time appeared with his subjects to be friendly to us. But then, trampling under foot the promise of the pact made under Jovian, 4 he laid his hand on Armenia, with the intention of bringing the country under his sway, as if all force of the agreements that had been made was at an end.

1 368–70 A.D.

2 He was now 70 years old.

3 Cf. xxv. 7, 9 ff.

4 Cf. xxv. 7, 14.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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