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The Anonymus Valesianus, First Part: The lineage of the Emperor Constantine
The Anonymus Valesianus, latter part: The History of King Theodoric
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The day after these events the serious news came to the emperor, while he was quietly at table, that the Persian leader called the Surena 1 had unexpectedly attacked three squadrons of our scouting cavalry, had killed a very few of them, including one of their tribunes, and carried off a standard.
1 See xxiv. 2, 4.
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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