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[3] This district is fruitful in fields of grain and in cultivation. 1 Not far from it is Coche, which they call Seleucia; there a camp [p. 451] was hastily fortified, and the entire army because of the convenience of water and fodder rested for two days. But the emperor went on ahead with some light-armed skirmishers, in order to visit a deserted city destroyed in former days by the emperor Carus 2 ; in this there is an ever flowing spring forming a great pool which empties into the Tigris. There he saw the impaled bodies of many kinsmen of the man who (as I have already said) 3 had surrendered the city of Pirisabora.

1 The text is very uncertain. There was probably a lacuna between qui and bus.

2 M. Aurelius Carus, emperor from 282-283. Cf. Eutro. pius, ix. 8.

3 Cf. 2, 21, above.

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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